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:

- A poorer Canada means a poorer United States.
- Did Damon Imani appear on the February 24, 2025 episode of "The View" to verbally spar with co-host Sunny Hostin over the term "Woke", as a social media post seems to show? No, that's not true: Imani has never appeared...
- PolitiFact: Harriet Hageman – Does less than 25% of Education Department spending go to students? NoThe federal Education Department has a “budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.”
- Files reveal that John F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a 1994 letter calling then-Sen. Joe Biden “a traitor” before Kennedy’s 1999 death.
- The U.S. has experienced GDP per capita growth while its immigrant population has expanded.
- Don't trust Americans.
- Was a man named Jerce Reyes Barrios, described as a soccer player from Venezuela on social media, deported from the U.S. to El Salvador? The story was reported by ABC News, citing the man's attorney. Filings in U.S. District Court...
- President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that takes steps toward dismantling the Education Department. PolitiFact is reporting on his plans ahead of the 4 p.m. White House event.
- Says Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “engaged in election interference by campaigning” in Pennsylvania for former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
- Are people in various communities in the United States and England being warned about an 18-year-old known as Russell Robinson or Dycorrian Wayne Lofton knocking on doors and attacking people after he gains their trust? No, that's not true: Facebook...
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 (239):
2024 2025 actually against biden claim claims congress does doge donald election elon england evidence facebook fact-checking fake free funding government he her image it's jr. kennedy making march measles media million musk new nhs obama part people post posts president real reporter said say says scam screenshot show shows social speech syria tariffs tax tesla trump trump's u.s. ukraine ukrainian under us used vance video viral we white zelenskyy
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.
Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
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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.

