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:

• Full Fact: Posts about ‘evil’ babysitter on the run in the UK are fake
  The mugshot used is taken from a US case dating back to 2015.
• Full Fact: Has Reform UK ‘gained’ more seats than any other party in council by-elections since November?
  It depends on how you count seats “gained”.
• Full Fact: No, Pope Francis was not filmed swatting away Donald Trump’s hand
  A video circulating online originated as part of a comedy skit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Space Force, SpaceX Did NOT Release Statement That Will ‘Change Your Entire Life’
  Did the United States Space Force and Elon Musk's SpaceX release a joint statement in April 2025, warning that an imminent revelation would "change your entire life"? No, that's not true: Contrary to social media posts, which also referred to...
• The Dispatch: Pressure on Ukraine Mounts
  The U.S. threatens Kyiv with ultimatums as Russian attacks continue.
• The Dispatch: SCOTUSblog, Welcome to The Dispatch
  The Dispatch is well-positioned to become the definitive source for authoritative reporting and analysis of the Supreme Court.
• The Dispatch: Dead Dollar Walking
  The Imperial Fed.
• The Dispatch: No, Ukraine Is Not Fighting  a ‘Proxy War’
  Why the term is unhelpful in describing the war with Russia specifically, or other conflicts more generally.
• The Dispatch: A New McCarthyism
  How one Dane views free speech in America.
• The Dispatch: An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis
  Donald Trump’s ability to carry out mass deportations won’t depend on his ability to use the Alien Enemies Act against a Venezuelan gang.

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 (216):

2025 abrego again ai april article black but claim claims cspan democrats do does donald edt experts facebook fake falsely first francis garcia he house kilmar musk our over people photo pope post posts president real said satire say screenshot security show shows social story tariff tariffs trade trump trump's uk up video viral we white why x

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.