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:

• FactCheck.org: Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart
  In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new "reciprocal tariffs," President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariffs other countries charge the U.S. and the corresponding tariff that the U.S. will now impose against those countries. The post Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart appeared first on FactCheck.org.
• The Dispatch: Taxation Without Representation
  Without meaningful representation, anyway.
• PolitiFact: Cory Booker – Has consumer confidence fallen, as Sen. Cory Booker said? Two key surveys say yes
  "The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."
• FactCheck.org: Legal Scholars Dispute Constitutional ‘Loophole’ for a Third Trump Term
  President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that "there are methods" for him to serve a third term in the White House, and a Daily Mail article referred to a "loophole" in the 22nd Amendment that would make it possible. But legal experts told us the "loophole" legal argument is "implausible" and "defeats […]
• PolitiFact: Fact-checking misleading statements by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg
  With more than 150 lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration, Trump and his allies are lashing out at judges — and federal Judge James Boasberg in particular. These attacks need fact-checking.
• PolitiFact: Facebook posts – Myanmar quake affected Thailand, but these photos predate that
  Images show damage from an “earthquake in Thailand.”
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Posts Do NOT Offer Genuine Concern About A 3-Year-Old Boy Found In The Bronx
  Do posts about a "young boy, around 3 years old," found in The Bronx express authentic concern about the child said to have been found unattended "an hour ago"? No, that's not true: The content of these posts was later...
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Posts About Baby Boy ‘Found Abandoned By The Roadside Roughly An Hour Ago’ Are A Scam
  Are Facebook posts reporting a baby boy was found "abandoned by the roadside roughly an hour ago" in March and April 2025 genuine? No, that's not true: The posts are part of a bait-and-switch scam designed to lure social media...
• Full Fact: ONS fixes error on its deaths dashboard
• Full Fact: Lidl is not offering garden tool kits to over-50s for £3
  Posts on Facebook asking people to fill out a survey to access the deal are not associated with the retailer, and are not legitimate offers.

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 (253):

2025 against ai ai-generated april audio bait ban claim claims court day do does donald election elon evidence facebook fact-checking fake false fictional fox government he hoax house image it's j.d. know leaked list march media musk national need new news our over part photo post posts president protests real says scam scams security show shows signal social still story supreme tesla tiktok trump trump's turkey up us vance video viral war warning we why wisconsin 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.