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:

• The Dispatch: The Hidden Cost of Intelligence Leaks
  They are counterproductive and a threat to national security.
• The Dispatch: Supreme Court Fails to Sway Democrats on Gender Treatment Laws
  Congressional Dems have not rethought their position despite the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti decision—and a tough election.
• The Dispatch: Does ‘Socialism’ Still Mean Anything?
  On Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in New York City.
• The Dispatch: When Women Are Radicalized
  Men aren’t the only ones susceptible to extremist thinking.
• The Dispatch: How Sergio Gor Cashed in With Trumpworld
  Questions remain about the key Trump aide’s path to the White House.
• The Dispatch: Tax Bill Highlights the Collapse of GOP Policymaking
  The party chose spin over substance. And the spin is not working.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Video Showing Retired K9 Jumping In A Casket With A Dead Soldier Is Not Real – AI Made It
  Does a video authentically show a retired military K9 jumping into a casket to sit on a dead soldier? No, that's not true: A close inspection of the video reveals unreal details of the soldiers' uniforms indicating the video was...
• The Dispatch: Ruling Against Planned Parenthood
  The abortion case not about abortion.
• FactCheck.org: Questions Linger About Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stockpile After U.S. Airstrikes
  The location of some enriched uranium is still in question after the U.S. bombed three key nuclear facilities in Iran, according to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and experts on arms control and global security. The post Questions Linger About Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stockpile After U.S. Airstrikes appeared first on FactCheck.org.
• The Dispatch: The Rough Stuff
  Does Trump have a mandate for ‘strength’ or not?

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 (415):

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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.