Disinfo Dashboard

A collection of tools that monitor misinformation: Iffy Quotient social media tracker, CoVaxxy tweet chart, NewsWhip top-25 Facebook publishers table, Digital New Deal monitor of social media and deceptive sites, Fact-check Feed aggregator, and this fake-news tweets chart by the COVID States Project.

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 2021-11-06. 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.

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.

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:

• Snopes: Anti-Government Protesters Block Bridges, Roads in Serbia
  The demonstrators pledged further protests if the laws on property expropriation and referendum weren't withdrawn.
• Snopes: Did Wired Mag Publish ‘Scary Accurate’ Predictions About 21st Century in 1997?
  In late 2021, Twitter users shared an old list of 10 problems that could halt the march of progress in the early 21st century.
• Snopes: Identifying the ‘Right’ Results in a Search Engine
  Vigilance is the order of the day.
• Snopes: Chick-fil-A Will Be Closed on Christmas 2021, Which Is a Saturday
  Some clickbait headlines made it sound like the restaurant chain might be closing on Saturdays for good.
• Snopes: World on Alert As UK Reports Cases of Omicron COVID Variant
  Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Vaccine Ingredients Are NOT Kept From Doctors, While Chefs Know All Cupcake Contents As Allergy Precaution
  Is it true that vaccine ingredients are kept from doctors, while chefs must know cupcake contents in order to protect diners from allergic reactions? No, that's not true: Doctors, pharmacists and anyone with access to the internet can look up…
• Snopes: Towering Musical Theater Master Stephen Sondheim Dies at 91
  Sondheim's Texas-based attorney, Rick Pappas, told The New York Times the composer died Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut.
• Snopes: FDA: Merck COVID Pill Effective, Experts Will Review Safety
  The Food and Drug Administration posted its analysis of the pill ahead of a public meeting next week.
• Health Feedback: Natural News, others jump to conclusions unsupported by the study they cite to claim COVID-19 vaccines destroy the immune system and cause cancer
  A study published in October 2021 examined how high levels of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein could affect the process of DNA damage repair in cells growing in the lab. Because the mechanism for DNA damage repair is involved in the production of antibodies, some claimed that the study showed spike protein in the COVID-19 vaccines could […]
• Snopes: RECALL: Frozen Cauliflower Recalled Over Possible Listeria Concerns
  The bacteria can cause a sometimes-fatal disease called listeriosis.

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 (371):

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Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).