Disinfo Dashboard

A collection of tools that monitor misinformation: Iffy Quotient social media tracker, CoVaxxy tweet chart, NewsWhip top-25 Facebook publishers table, Fact-check Feed aggregator, and this plot of Factual Grades for 245 major news sources by The Factual.

Iffy Quotient: Facebook, Twitter

The Center for Social Media Responsibility (University of Michigan) maintains the Iffy Quotient (not affiliated with this site), a measure of the low-credibility content amplified on Facebook and Twitter, based on trust-ratings by Newsguard and Media Bias/Fact Check). This graph charts the percentage of top 5K social media posts that link to unreliable sources:

Content from “Iffy” sites amplified on Facebook and Twitter

Another way to express their data is "an engagement-weighted version of the Iffy Quotient. Rather than treating all popular URLs as equal, we weight them by the estimated engagement scores."

NewsWhip: Facebook

NewsWhip "tracks and predicts the impact of millions of stories." The chart below uses their API to rank the top 25 publishers by their engagement on Facebook. (English-language content, ranked by number of articles, by likes, shares, and comments for total engagement, grouped by domain; does not include media uploaded to Facebook.) The factual column is the publisher's factual-reporting level, as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Fact-check Feed

The Fact-check Feed site has been aggregating articles from a dozen U.S. fact-checkers since 2016 into a searchable archive. Here are the most recent:

• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Metallica Vocalist James Hetfield Has NOT Committed To Funding The Education Of Charlie Kirk’s Children — It’s One Of Several Social Media Traffic Scams
  Did Metallica vocalist James Hetfield commit to pay for the education of Kirk's children, as multiple social media posts declared? No, that's not true: The claims lack corroboration from reliable sources or public statements. Hetfield has made no such announcement,...
• FactCheck.org: Rural Health Fund Falls Short of Estimated Medicaid Cuts
  In the battle over how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act affects rural hospitals, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has touted a five-year $50 billion fund as “an infusion of cash” that will “restore and revitalize” rural communities. But his statements ignore the higher estimated Medicaid spending cuts to rural areas […]
• PolitiFact: Key question in the Jimmy Kimmel case: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?
  Can FCC restrict speech for the public interest?
• The Dispatch: The Easy Way
  The end of American exceptionalism.
• PolitiFact: Can Trump designate antifa as a ‘major terrorist organization?’ Here’s what we know
  Can Trump label antifa a ‘major terrorist organization?’
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Erika Kirk Did NOT File A $40 Million Lawsuit Against ABC — Satire Origin
  Did Charlie Kirk's wife Erika Kirk file a $40 million lawsuit against ABC, as is claimed in a social media post? No, that's not true: The story originated on a satirical Facebook page that clearly labels its content as fake....
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Stephen Colbert Did NOT Announce He Was Opening A $10 Million ‘Paradise’ For Dogs And Cats
  Did Stephen Colbert announce he was opening a $10 million "paradise" for dogs and cats? No, that's not true: The story is completely made up. There is no evidence that Colbert has said that he will be spending $10 million...
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Transcripts In Charlie Kirk Murder Case Do NOT Include Tyler Robinson Asking His Roommate How To ‘Become Muslim’
  Does a viral image show an authentic transcript of a conversation between Tyler Robinson and his roommate about how to become Muslim? No, that's not true: Most likely intended to be a joke, the picture showed a made-up exchange. No...
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Images Of Trump Eating Spaghetti During King Charles III’s Speech Are NOT Real Shots From Windsor Castle State Banquet
  Did a real photo show Donald Trump slurping up a plate of spaghetti while King Charles III made a speech at a state banquet? No, that's not true: The picture of Trump with a mouthful of spaghetti has been digitally...
• The Dispatch: Dispatch Politics Roundup: A Busy Week on the Hill
  Your weekly roundup from Washington, D.C.

Visit the Fact-check Feed (external site) for tens of thousands more articles, by (mainly) U.S. fact-checkers.

Most common words in titles from the past two weeks of fact-checks (251):

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Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).

Archives

These projects are now longer updating.

CoVaxxy: Twitter

The CoVaxxy tool, from the Observatory on Social Media (Indiana University), "visualizes the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online (mis)information." Credibility ratings are by Media Bias/Fact Check and Iffy+. Compiled tweets are for the week ending 2022-12-20. The factual column is the publisher's factual-reporting level, as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check.

COVID States Project: 2020 tweets

The COVID States Project charted the fake-news sites with the most COVID-related Twitter shares in 2020.

Digital New Deal: Facebook, Twitter

The Digital New Deal, a project of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, "monitors engagement on social media with deceptive sites that masquerade as journalism." Deceptive sites are identified by NewsGuard reviews.