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.
| Domain | Factual | Articles | Engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| dailymail.co.uk | Low | 52,246 | 13,818,198 |
| people.com | High | 7,216 | 9,692,508 |
| mirror.co.uk | Mixed | 11,661 | 9,437,859 |
| bbc.co.uk | (not-rated) | 17,799 | 7,989,474 |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 7,485 | 6,956,802 |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 4,224 | 6,429,746 |
| thesun.co.uk | Mixed | 14,825 | 5,995,513 |
| cbsnews.com | High | 21,644 | 5,753,021 |
| today.com | Mostly Factual | 1,756 | 4,813,295 |
| dailywire.com | Mixed | 1,203 | 4,706,350 |
| manutd.com | (not-rated) | 705 | 4,232,549 |
| nytimes.com | High | 4,443 | 4,074,689 |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 6,920 | 4,041,164 |
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,094 | 3,973,735 |
| metro.co.uk | Mixed | 7,439 | 3,937,943 |
| manchestereveningnews.co.uk | (not-rated) | 4,650 | 3,607,705 |
| insider.com | High | 1,626 | 3,462,765 |
| variety.com | High | 1,651 | 3,263,997 |
| reuters.com | Very High | 12,239 | 3,194,926 |
| nbcnews.com | High | 2,565 | 3,176,116 |
| npr.org | Very High | 1,844 | 3,004,394 |
| huffpost.com | Mixed | 1,727 | 2,839,133 |
| nypost.com | Mixed | 6,606 | 2,763,387 |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 6,765 | 2,613,095 |
| abcnews.go.com | High | 10,017 | 2,589,407 |
| Source: NewsWhip API and NewsWhip Spike | |||
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:
- Doing so could help deter war.
- A list of corrections issued by The Dispatch last month.
- Are windmills -- also known as wind turbines -- killing all of the bald eagles in the United States, as President Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post? No, that's not true: Studies estimate the number of eagles killed...
- Is Kamala Harris the worst politician of the year?
- What the former senator has given to our politics.
- Two views of the New Year.
- What Trump’s designs on Greenland say about America’s changing role in the world.
- Understanding the historical parallels between Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump.
- Of course performers should boycott the Kennedy Center.
- Does Sweet Angel Child Care's phone number dial directly to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's office? No, that's not true: The child care center's phone number as listed on the state licensing website and several other online directories does not connect...
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 (140):
2025 ai-generated being best celebrities christmas claims does epstein fake falsely his interview isn't it's media new other people real show shows social spam speech trump trump's video vietnam |
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.
| Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,200 | |
| thegatewaypundit.com | Very Low | 2,400 | |
| childrenshealthdefense.org | Low | 2,300 | |
| theconservativetreehouse.com | Low | 2,300 | |
| cdc.gov | Very High | 2,200 | |
| judicialwatch.org | Low | 1,700 | |
| naturalnews.com | Very Low | 1,600 | |
| dailymail.co.uk | Low | 1,500 | |
| bitchute.com | Very Low | 1,500 | |
| reuters.com | Very High | 1,500 | |
| nypost.com | Mixed | 1,000 | |
| nytimes.com | High | 940 | |
| wsj.com | Mostly Factual | 890 | |
| technocracy.news | Very Low | 870 | |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 770 | |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 660 | |
| theblaze.com | Mixed | 590 | |
| thehighwire.com | Low | 540 | |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 510 | |
| npr.org | Very High | 460 | |
| zerohedge.com | Low | 450 | |
| who.int | High | 360 | |
| newswars.com | Low | 350 | |
| gellerreport.com | Low | 340 | |
| usatoday.com | High | 340 | |
| usawatchdog.com | Low | 320 | |
| apnews.com | Very High | 280 | |
| newspunch.com | Very Low | 250 | |
| msnbc.com | Mixed | 190 | |
| dailycaller.com | Mixed | 170 | |
| thelibertydaily.com | Mixed | 170 | |
| independent.co.uk | Mixed | 160 | |
| globaltimes.cn | Mixed | 160 | |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 150 | |
| ukcolumn.org | Low | 130 | |
| infowars.com | Very Low | 130 | |
| thenationalpulse.com | Mixed | 120 | |
| globalresearch.ca | Low | 110 | |
| chinadaily.com.cn | Mixed | 98 | |
| newstarget.com | Low | 95 | |
| davidicke.com | Very Low | 90 | |
| newsweek.com | High | 85 | |
| wnd.com | Low | 82 | |
| dailywire.com | Mixed | 80 | |
| cbn.com | (not-rated) | 79 | |
| time.com | High | 78 | |
| activistpost.com | Low | 74 | |
| washingtontimes.com | Mixed | 73 | |
| pjmedia.com | Mixed | 72 | |
| gnews.org | Low | 68 | |
| Source: OSoMe CoVaxxy | |||
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.
