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: Before Trump Sought to Annex Canada, Washington Took the Expos
  How baseball ‘reshored’ the team that became the Nationals 20 years ago.
• The Dispatch: Why Conservatives—and Everyone Else—Should Read Novels
  The apex form of the English language has something to teach everyone.
• The Dispatch: Why You Shouldn’t Have Kids—And Why You Should Anyway
  Having kids is difficult in ways easy to talk about and great in ways difficult to talk about.
• FactCheck.org: RFK Jr.’s Misleading Line on the Chickenpox Vaccine
  Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne that out -- and parts of Europe do vaccinate kids. […]
• PolitiFact: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – HHS Secretary RFK Jr. tussled with Sen. Chris Murphy about measles vaccine safety. Who was right?
  It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris.
• FactCheck.org: Trump’s South Africa ‘Genocide’ Spin
  Asked by a reporter why he was welcoming white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees, President Donald Trump said there was "a genocide that's taking place" against white farmers in the country. Experts say the president is misapplying that term. The post Trump’s South Africa ‘Genocide’ Spin appeared first on FactCheck.org.
• The Dispatch: Deals and Duds, All the Way Down
  If it’s not a deal he made himself, Donald Trump doesn’t want it.
• PolitiFact: James Comey posted the number ‘86’ in reference to Donald Trump. What’s the history of the term?
  Ask PolitiFact: What does '86’ mean? Parsing Comey’s seashells
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Image Does NOT Prove Ukrainian Government Issued ‘Rules For Reporters’ Photographing Zelenskyy In Turkey In May 2025
  Does a viral image confirm that the Ukrainian government issued new rules prohibiting taking pictures of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from certain angles? No, that's not true: Talking to Lead Stories, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Embassy in the United...
• PolitiFact: Bernie Sanders – Bernie Sanders says GOP bill would strip Medicaid, health care from 13.7 million. That’s too high.
  “Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”

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 (237):

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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.