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.
| Domain | Factual | Articles | Engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| dailymail.co.uk | Low | 52,246 | 13,818,198 |
| people.com | High | 7,216 | 9,692,508 |
| mirror.co.uk | Mixed | 11,661 | 9,437,859 |
| bbc.co.uk | (not-rated) | 17,799 | 7,989,474 |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 7,485 | 6,956,802 |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 4,224 | 6,429,746 |
| thesun.co.uk | Mixed | 14,825 | 5,995,513 |
| cbsnews.com | High | 21,644 | 5,753,021 |
| today.com | Mostly Factual | 1,756 | 4,813,295 |
| dailywire.com | Mixed | 1,203 | 4,706,350 |
| manutd.com | (not-rated) | 705 | 4,232,549 |
| nytimes.com | High | 4,443 | 4,074,689 |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 6,920 | 4,041,164 |
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,094 | 3,973,735 |
| metro.co.uk | Mixed | 7,439 | 3,937,943 |
| manchestereveningnews.co.uk | (not-rated) | 4,650 | 3,607,705 |
| insider.com | High | 1,626 | 3,462,765 |
| variety.com | High | 1,651 | 3,263,997 |
| reuters.com | Very High | 12,239 | 3,194,926 |
| nbcnews.com | High | 2,565 | 3,176,116 |
| npr.org | Very High | 1,844 | 3,004,394 |
| huffpost.com | Mixed | 1,727 | 2,839,133 |
| nypost.com | Mixed | 6,606 | 2,763,387 |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 6,765 | 2,613,095 |
| abcnews.go.com | High | 10,017 | 2,589,407 |
| Source: NewsWhip API and NewsWhip Spike | |||
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:
- Was Jared Kushner, a businessman, U.S. special envoy for peace and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, one of the people who recently bought .si domain names? Here's what we know so far: There is no evidence that Kushner recently acquired any...
- Does a viral picture actually document a real-life event during which U.S. servicemembers shot "reptilians"? No, that's not true: Three online tools said that the image was AI-generated. Available government sources do not support the idea of such an encounter...
- In several congressional races, Republican ads are claiming that Democratic candidates support "sex changes" for children or support taxpayer money being used for such surgeries. But the allegations of support for those claims are flawed. The post Republican Ads Distort the Facts in Claiming Democratic Support for ‘Sex Changes’ for Kids appeared first on FactCheck.org.
- Did President Donald Trump's Truth Social account post a 503 "Service Unavailable" error referencing Yandex? No, that's not true: A review of Trump's Truth Social account found no record of the post, and no established news outlets reported that his...
- Did "The Simpsons" predict that President Donald Trump would take a picture with a glowing orb? No, that's not true: The image is from a short posted to the official Facebook account of "The Simpsons" after the real picture of...
- Do real photos show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing a bunny costume or an off-the-shoulder cocktail dress? No, that's not true: Hive Moderation found all of the images highly likely to be AI-generated. Searches with Google Lens did not find any...
- Did "South Park" tease an episode featuring Susan Dell and did she rage in response? No, that's not true: The image of Dell appearing with the characters from the TV show is AI-generated and was made by a digital creator....
- Was an email to Jeffrey Epstein in the Epstein files ending in "Love ya" written by Marco Rubio? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Rubio wrote the email, whose "From" field and signature section are redacted. No...
- A viral video uses AI to falsely claim Bill Gates said one billion people will die by 2027 due to water shortages.
- Does a recording released on social media prove Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was treated at an Ohio mental health facility? Here is what we know: The facility released a statement saying that Talarico "has never received treatment from Lindner...
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 (87):
2026 ads ai ai-generated attack does evidence fake flight flydubai plane post protests shared show shows trump video
Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).
Archives
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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.
| Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,200 | |
| thegatewaypundit.com | Very Low | 2,400 | |
| childrenshealthdefense.org | Low | 2,300 | |
| theconservativetreehouse.com | Low | 2,300 | |
| cdc.gov | Very High | 2,200 | |
| judicialwatch.org | Low | 1,700 | |
| naturalnews.com | Very Low | 1,600 | |
| dailymail.co.uk | Low | 1,500 | |
| bitchute.com | Very Low | 1,500 | |
| reuters.com | Very High | 1,500 | |
| nypost.com | Mixed | 1,000 | |
| nytimes.com | High | 940 | |
| wsj.com | Mostly Factual | 890 | |
| technocracy.news | Very Low | 870 | |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 770 | |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 660 | |
| theblaze.com | Mixed | 590 | |
| thehighwire.com | Low | 540 | |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 510 | |
| npr.org | Very High | 460 | |
| zerohedge.com | Low | 450 | |
| who.int | High | 360 | |
| newswars.com | Low | 350 | |
| gellerreport.com | Low | 340 | |
| usatoday.com | High | 340 | |
| usawatchdog.com | Low | 320 | |
| apnews.com | Very High | 280 | |
| newspunch.com | Very Low | 250 | |
| msnbc.com | Mixed | 190 | |
| dailycaller.com | Mixed | 170 | |
| thelibertydaily.com | Mixed | 170 | |
| independent.co.uk | Mixed | 160 | |
| globaltimes.cn | Mixed | 160 | |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 150 | |
| ukcolumn.org | Low | 130 | |
| infowars.com | Very Low | 130 | |
| thenationalpulse.com | Mixed | 120 | |
| globalresearch.ca | Low | 110 | |
| chinadaily.com.cn | Mixed | 98 | |
| newstarget.com | Low | 95 | |
| davidicke.com | Very Low | 90 | |
| newsweek.com | High | 85 | |
| wnd.com | Low | 82 | |
| dailywire.com | Mixed | 80 | |
| cbn.com | (not-rated) | 79 | |
| time.com | High | 78 | |
| activistpost.com | Low | 74 | |
| washingtontimes.com | Mixed | 73 | |
| pjmedia.com | Mixed | 72 | |
| gnews.org | Low | 68 | |
| Source: OSoMe CoVaxxy | |||
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.
