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."

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.

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: £7 million daily cost of hotel accommodation includes cost of housing Afghan refugees
  Articles in the Daily Express and Daily Mail wrongly claimed that almost £7 million a day is being spent on hotels for people who either arrived in the UK illegally or are awaiting deportation.
• The Dispatch: Hats in the Ring for Michigan Senate
  Plus: The Koch network gears up to take on Trump in 2024. The post Hats in the Ring for Michigan Senate appeared first on The Dispatch.
• Full Fact: Daily Mail corrects column on opposition to ULEZ expansion
  A column published in the Daily Mail which stated that a public consultation on the planned expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone found 80% opposition has since been corrected.
• PolitiFact: The state of the US economy under Joe Biden, in 15 charts
  President Joe Biden can point to a strong labor market and continued economic growth on his watch. But historically high levels of inflation and overall consumer confidence remain concerns. Here’s our graphical look at more than a dozen economic metric...
• The Dispatch: A Blazing Jobs Report in an Odd Economic Moment
  Unemployment just hit its lowest level in more than half a century. The post A Blazing Jobs Report in an Odd Economic Moment appeared first on The Dispatch.
• Poynter: Tweets distort Biden’s comments on tanks, Ukraine and World War III
  President Joe Biden announced Jan. 25 that the U.S. will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help it defend against Russia. A day later, a meme account on Twitter highlighted […] The post Tweets distort Biden’s comments on tanks, Ukraine and Wo...
• The Dispatch: Ranks of Republicans Refusing a ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling Hike Grows
  A group of Republicans is joining Kevin McCarthy and the House Freedom Caucus in hardline negotiations. The post Ranks of Republicans Refusing a ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling Hike Grows appeared first on The Dispatch.
• The Dispatch: Biden’s State of the Union Misery Index
  Potential primary challengers will be looking for weakness. The post Biden’s State of the Union Misery Index appeared first on The Dispatch.
• Washington Post: Biden’s 2022 State of the Union proposals: What flopped and what succeeded
  With Democrats only narrowly in control of the House and Senate in 2022, Biden’s track record on legislation is mixed.
• The Dispatch: Our Best Stuff on Policing, 2024, and the Debt Ceiling Fight
  Plus, Ukraine asks for F-16s. The post Our Best Stuff on Policing, 2024, and the Debt Ceiling Fight appeared first on The Dispatch.

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 (360):

&hellip 2022 2023 account americans aren't aretha bbc because biden biden's bill black blood but california can cancer cause causing change claim claims classified climate comments congress context contrary could covid-19 damar death deaths debt despite dispatch do documents does doesn't don't donald down economic egg eggs election evidence experts facebook found gop government hamlin he image instagram isn't it's january joe live man misleading more national nichols ocasio-cortez one over people photo police posts president putin real report risk say says scott show shows so spending state study sudden suddenly tanks technology trump tweet tweets twitter tyre u.s. ukraine under union unvaccinated up us use vaccine vaccines video viral war why world wrong

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.

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.