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:
- Making America Venezuela.
- A document shows Minnesota shooting victim Renee Good had a record of child abuse.
- Credit card companies would be “in violation of the law” if they don’t cap interest rates at 10% by Jan. 20.
- “They are not getting the traditional five months training. … The training for the ICE agents now is 47 days.”
- PolitiFact: Investigation of Fed chief Jerome Powell: What Trump has said about him since April 2025Criminal probe latest in Trump clash with Fed chief Powell
- Did an actual news outlet report that an oil executive said Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef" and audibly farted multiple times during a White House meeting with oil industry leaders? No, that's not true: The viral message making...
- The image appears to show the US President sitting next to Epstein on a sofa surrounded by women, but there are several signs that show it was likely made with artificial intelligence.
- When law enforcement agents dress for war, war follows.
- A fake transcript claiming to show a heated interview between Nigel Farage and Laura Kuenssberg is circulating on Facebook. The BBC confirmed this didn’t happen, and the pictures of it are AI-generated.
- + Iran crackdown | DOJ vs. the Fed | the UFC defeats the G7
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 (158):
2025 2026 agent ai ai-generated back can capture claims does donald fake good ice image interview maduro media military minneapolis minnesota new news nicolás nicole oil operation photo post president real renee said say shared shooting show social story trump u.s. us venezuela video viral |
Most-used words in recent fact-check titles. Links go to a Fact-check Feed search (of titles and article text).
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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.
