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: NATO Nihilism
  Since when do we trust Russia?
• The Dispatch: ‘Liberation Day’ From What, Exactly?
  Donald Trump vowed to fix inflation. His tariffs would make everything more expensive.
• The Dispatch: Americans Did Vote for This
  Donald Trump was elected to hurt people, not to help them, and that’s what he’s doing.
• The Dispatch: Donald Trump, Franklin Roosevelt and the Allure of Permanent Power 
  Why the president’s talk about a third term should be treated as a credible threat.
• The Dispatch: Hill Republicans Hope It’s Finally Time for a TikTok Sale
  With a deadline approaching, GOP lawmakers want to see legislation enforced.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Authentic Ronald Reagan Speech About Little Girl Who Wanted To Solve Homelessness
  Does a viral clip show authentic archival footage of U.S. President Ronald Reagan telling a story about his conversation with a child who wanted to solve homelessness? No, that's not true: Two AI detectors found that the clip utilized AI...
• The Dispatch: ‘Liberation’ Movement
  On the euphemism du jour.
• PolitiFact: TikTok posts – There’s no evidence that Speaker Mike Johnson is messaging on Grindr
  Screenshots show Speaker Mike Johnson messaging on Grindr.
• PolitiFact: Facebook posts – Video doesn’t show troops preparing to defend Greenland against US
  Video shows “France and Denmark are sending troops to Greenland to prepare for (an) attack from Donald Trump.”
• PolitiFact: Marjorie Taylor Greene – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong, ‘Sesame Street’ was not replaced by ‘drag queen storytime’
  On PBS, "they now have drag queen storytime instead of good old ‘Sesame Street.’"

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 (249):

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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.