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 Uses of Cringe
  Shamelessness as a political asset.
• The Dispatch: Artificial Unintelligence
  AI is only as bigoted as we make it.
• FactCheck.org: The CBO Breakdown on Medicaid Losses, Increase in Uninsured
  The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would reduce Medicaid enrollment and cause millions of people to become uninsured by 2034. It didn’t say that “5 million” of the people who are “going to lose insurance” would have “other insurance” so “they’re still insured,” as National […]
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: FBI Director Kash Patel Did NOT Release Sealed Documents Tying Hillary Clinton And Vladimir Putin To ‘James Comey Scandal’
  Did FBI Director Kash Patel declassify records detailing Hillary Clinton's and Vladimir Putin's ties to the 'James Comey Scandal'? No, that's not true: The viral rumor originated from a comedian's page. Neither the FBI nor credible media organizations said anything...
• PolitiFact: Ron DeSantis – Ron DeSantis claims ‘zero’ environmental impact. That's not possible, experts say.
  There is “zero impact” from Alligator Alcatraz on the Florida Everglades.
• News Facts Network: ‘Worms in Food, Sewage on Floors’: Migrants Describe Abuse at Alligator Alcatraz
  Detainees and attorneys are raising alarms about harsh and unsanitary conditions at a new immigration... The post ‘Worms in Food, Sewage on Floors’: Migrants Describe Abuse at Alligator Alcatraz appeared first on News Facts Network.
• PolitiFact: Kevin Hassett – Is it true that 5 million people at risk of losing Medicaid are already covered by other insurance?
  A Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”
• PolitiFact: Jon Favreau – Does Trump’s new law make ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency?
  “ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
• News Facts Network: Tensions Erupt Over Epstein Files as Bongino Clashes with Bondi, Skips Work
  Internal divisions over the Jeffrey Epstein case erupted this week inside the Trump administration, culminating... The post Tensions Erupt Over Epstein Files as Bongino Clashes with Bondi, Skips Work appeared first on News Facts Network.
• Full Fact: Footage of 2023 car accident in US falsely shared as Diogo Jota crash
  A Facebook post shares footage of a white vehicle crashing, but this is not related to the fatal accident killing the Liverpool forward and his brother, contrary to a claim online.

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 (350):

2025 access administration against agenda ai alcatraz alligator announce announces ban beautiful big bill but can case center city claim claims court cspan cuts day democrats department detained detention does doj donald edt elon epstein evidence facebook fake federal files flood flooding florida funding gop government he health help house ice image immigration iran july june lawsuit maga mamdani medicaid megabill migrant million more musk new next nyc one over party policy post posts president real release report says senate set shared show shows social spending supreme tariff tax term texas trade trillion trump trump's truth u.s. up urges us victims video viral washington we weather white why x zohran

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.