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: Eiffel Tower was not lit up in Israeli flag colours after Iran attack
  An image claimed to show the Eiffel Tower lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag after Iran’s attack is actually an image from October 2023.
• The Dispatch: In Michigan, Republicans Sense Opportunity as Biden Faces Challenges
  Plus: Republican voters in Pennsylvania turn out in numbers for Nikki Haley.
• Full Fact: Footage of people taking cover at a petrol station in Israel is not from Iran’s attack
  The video has been shared widely on social media with claims it shows Iran’s attack on Israel, but it was actually taken in 2023 and shows missiles being intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome.
• The Dispatch: Trump’s New York Criminal Trial Hears First Witness
  ‘It was election fraud, pure and simple.’
• The Dispatch: Trust the Scientism
  Gender fear.
• The Dispatch: A Moment of Courage and Wisdom for the GOP
  Speaker Mike Johnson stands up to the radical fringe within his own party.
• The Dispatch: Joe Biden’s Fine Line in Michigan
  The president’s problems in the Wolverine State extend beyond its Arab American community.
• The Dispatch: 200 Days of Missed Milestones
  At Passover, Israeli families await word of their loved ones kidnapped by Hamas.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: ‘Map Of America From 1500’ Does NOT Prove Antarctica Was Inhabited For Centuries – It’s A Fake Map From A 1911 Book
  Does a supposed map of America, purportedly from 1500, prove that Antarctica was inhabited by people for centuries? No, that's not true: The map that is shown in a social media post is not from the 1500s. It is a...
• The Dispatch: The Two Michaels
  Everyone loves a convert.

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 (300):

13 2023 2024 abortion aid april attack attend authentic ban biden biden's but can claim claims clip court covid-19 data do does doesn't don't donald eclipse evidence experts explained facebook fact-checking fake false federal foreign graduation gummies he his house image instagram iran iran's iranian isn't israel israelis it's joe johnson judge klaus know loss media mike money new nhs number online people photo post posts president real review say says schwab show shows social states strike support taylor they trial trump trump's u.s. ukraine up us vaccines video viral vote wrong 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.