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: Will Scandals Surrounding Mark Robinson Hurt Trump in North Carolina?
  Plus: House and Senate members play the blame game on political rhetoric.
• Full Fact: Are student loan repayments really ‘the cost of a pint of beer’?
  We’ve crunched the numbers after a claim on the Today programme from former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson.
• Full Fact: A three-year-old girl was not found wandering in Poole
  The hoax post falsely claims a child called Mila was found wandering in Poole.
• Full Fact: Picture of Kamala Harris with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been altered
  An altered image of the Democratic presidential candidate has been circulating on social media.
• FactCheck.org: Vance’s Misleading Claim About Immigrants and Murders in Springfield, Ohio
  Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, circulated a baseless rumor on social media that the residents of Springfield, Ohio, “have had their pets abducted and eaten by” immigrants. Now, Vance has cherry-picked data to make the unfounded claim that immigrants are responsible for an 81% increase in the city's murders. The post Vance’s […]
• Full Fact: No, Taylor Swift has not cancelled Eras tour over Kamala Harris endorsement ‘backlash’
  Social media posts falsely claim the star cancelled dates on her tour after ‘only 2,300 tickets sold’.
• Full Fact: Video shows US military depot, not tanks left in Afghanistan
  Posts online falsely claim a video shows US military equipment “given” to the Taliban when it withdrew from Afghanistan.
• The Dispatch: Israel’s Focus Shifts North After Electronics Attack
  Iran-backed Hezbollah says the purported Israeli operation was a ‘declaration of war.’
• The Dispatch: I’m Not Inflaming Political Violence, You Are
  Plus: ‘Stop the Steal’ 2.0.
• The Dispatch: Marty Kotis Will Not Stay in His Lane
  The University of North Carolina trustee took on DEI, anti-Israel protests.

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 (340):

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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).

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.