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: Assessing Claims That Google Cut Pride Month, Other Celebrations From Its Calendar App
  The company did so in mid-2024, citing business reasons.
• Full Fact: Picture doesn’t prove baseless conspiracy theory Brigitte Macron is a man
  A picture is being shared online with false claims it shows the French First Lady as a boy.
• The Dispatch: Turmoil in the Big Apple
  Trump 2.0 is sending shockwaves through New York.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: NO Evidence Carrie Underwood Won $1 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Involving ‘The View’ — Originated On Clickbait Channels
  Did Carrie Underwood win a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against "The View" or did she even sue them? No, that's not true: The story alleging there was a lawsuit involving comments on "The View" about Underwood's performance at President Trump's inauguration...
• Full Fact: No, video does not show real TV report on Disney growing child stars in lab
  The clip is of a fake news report which was first posted by the satirical outlet The Onion in 2008.
• The Dispatch: Are We the Baddies Now?
  Zelensky, 'A dictator without elections'?
• The Dispatch: Against the Executive Sledgehammer
  USAID may have needed reforms. But not these.
• The Dispatch: Paranoia and Personal Grudges Explain Trump’s Turn on Ukraine
  The president’s beef with Volodomyr Zelenksy goes back to the ‘perfect phone call’ of 2019.
• The Dispatch: The Perfect Is Not the Only Enemy of the Good
  And DOGE is not merely imperfect. It's actively bad.
• PolitiFact: Nancy Mace – Rep. Nancy Mace is wrong. Not all people are born with either XX or XY chromosomes.
  “You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.”

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 (313):

2025 account ad administration ai ai-generated assessing ban bowl but can chiefs city claim claims claudia conference crash dc dei democrats department does doge donald during edited education elon evidence executive facebook fact-checking fake false february federal flu found german giving government harris he his house housing ice image immigration instagram isn't joe law media mexican military million money musk national new news order originated our over page pay payments people photo plane post posts president real russia said satire satirical say sheinbaum should show shows social state story super taken tariffs threads time trump trump's u.s. uk ukraine under us usaid vance video viral war washington wealth wearing white why work wrong x years

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.