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: The Fascist Bargain
  Absolute podcasting corrupts absolutely.
• The Dispatch: American Heretics and Heroes
  Who gets to decide who’s been the most faithful to the country’s creeds?
• The Dispatch: What Does AI Steal From Us?
  As Jacob McNeal, Robert Downey Jr. embodies the dishonesty underpinning a transformative technology.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Oprah Winfrey NOT Dead As Of January 17, 2025
  Has Oprah Winfrey died as of January 17, 2025, as implied by viral social media posts? No, that's not true: An article attached to a post implying that Winfrey died did not provide evidence of her supposed death nor mention...
• PolitiFact: Here’s what we know about L.A. fire department’s DEI efforts, which Republicans have attacked
  Documents show diversity, inclusion and equity initiatives comprise a minuscule portion of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget, but Republicans on social media have blamed them for what they say is a flawed response to wildfires.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Authentic Panic In Paris Over UFO, Object In River
  Does footage show an authentic panic in Paris as people react to a UFO and an unidentified submerged object (USO) in the Seine River? No, that's not true: The video is from a film shoot. The footage is from the...
• PolitiFact: TikTok posts – No, Donald Trump didn’t post on X that he is ‘purchasing TikTok’
  President-elect Donald Trump posted on X that he is “purchasing TikTok.”
• The Dispatch: Assessing Claims That NYT Reporter David Fahrenthold Was a Groomsman at Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding
  Billy Bush made a false claim while discussing the infamous ‘Access Hollywood’ tape featuring Donald Trump.
• FactCheck.org: What We Know About What Led to the L.A. Wildfires
  We explain what’s known about how the catastrophic L.A. wildfires started and the factors that scientists do -- and don’t -- think contributed. The post What We Know About What Led to the L.A. Wildfires appeared first on FactCheck.org.
• The Dispatch: The TikTok Rout
  An unserious country.

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 (274):

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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.