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."
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 2022-09-08. The factual column is the publisher's factual-reporting level, as rated by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Domain | Factual | Tweets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| childrenshealthdefense.org | Low | 4,700 | |
| wsj.com | Mostly Factual | 3,000 | |
| thegatewaypundit.com | Very Low | 2,100 | |
| cdc.gov | Very High | 1,500 | |
| reuters.com | Very High | 1,400 | |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 940 | |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 690 | |
| dailymail.co.uk | Low | 560 | |
| nytimes.com | High | 540 | |
| naturalnews.com | Very Low | 460 | |
| newstarget.com | Low | 440 | |
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 420 | |
| bitchute.com | Very Low | 330 | |
| npr.org | Very High | 320 | |
| time.com | High | 300 | |
| nypost.com | Mixed | 270 | |
| apnews.com | Very High | 250 | |
| gnews.org | Low | 220 | |
| who.int | High | 220 | |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 210 | |
| usatoday.com | High | 200 | |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 190 | |
| usawatchdog.com | Low | 180 | |
| wnd.com | Low | 170 | |
| dailycaller.com | Mixed | 170 | |
| gellerreport.com | Low | 160 | |
| theconservativetreehouse.com | Low | 140 | |
| economist.com | High | 140 | |
| thenationalpulse.com | Mixed | 120 | |
| zerohedge.com | Low | 110 | |
| swprs.org | Mixed | 110 | |
| newsweek.com | High | 100 | |
| independent.co.uk | Mixed | 89 | |
| globalresearch.ca | Low | 83 | |
| theblaze.com | Mixed | 69 | |
| technocracy.news | Very Low | 67 | |
| sott.net | Low | 52 | |
| infowars.com | Very Low | 47 | |
| msnbc.com | Mixed | 46 | |
| takimag.com | Low | 44 | |
| lewrockwell.com | Low | 39 | |
| americanthinker.com | Low | 38 | |
| dcdirtylaundry.com | Very Low | 37 | |
| en-volve.com | Very Low | 37 | |
| oann.com | Low | 36 | |
| marketwatch.com | High | 35 | |
| vaccineimpact.com | Very Low | 34 | |
| huffpost.com | Mixed | 32 | |
| australiannationalreview.com | Low | 31 | |
| sustainablepulse.com | Low | 27 | |
| Source: OSoMe CoVaxxy | |||
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 | 49,116 | 38,087,069 |
| legit.ng | Mostly Factual | 4,852 | 26,966,565 |
| mirror.co.uk | Mixed | 11,690 | 22,497,266 |
| tuko.co.ke | Mixed | 4,125 | 15,306,621 |
| thesun.co.uk | Mixed | 14,601 | 11,582,893 |
| cnn.com | Mixed | 4,078 | 11,270,433 |
| metro.co.uk | Mixed | 7,802 | 11,108,117 |
| foxnews.com | Mixed | 6,620 | 10,918,374 |
| yabaleftonline.ng | Mixed | 910 | 10,454,345 |
| nbcnews.com | High | 2,698 | 10,263,990 |
| bbc.co.uk | Low | 19,007 | 9,716,424 |
| dailywire.com | Mixed | 1,418 | 9,291,552 |
| people.com | High | 3,860 | 9,289,271 |
| nytimes.com | High | 4,780 | 8,353,822 |
| yen.com.gh | Mixed | 2,346 | 8,123,842 |
| manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Mixed | 5,133 | 7,421,946 |
| theguardian.com | Mixed | 8,068 | 6,879,555 |
| washingtonpost.com | Mostly Factual | 5,986 | 6,765,959 |
| businessinsider.com | High | 3,390 | 6,721,109 |
| citizen.digital | High | 1,514 | 6,628,559 |
| breitbart.com | Mixed | 6,969 | 6,519,757 |
| rumble.com | Low | 22,695 | 6,516,547 |
| npr.org | Very High | 2,282 | 6,423,020 |
| goal.com | Low | 7,153 | 6,413,941 |
| news.abs-cbn.com | High | 3,569 | 6,388,035 |
| 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:
- The famous line from "Tombstone" has some people murmuring about the "Mandela Effect."
- Hurricane Ian was orchestrated as part of a pandemic-related conspiracy to devastate Floridians.
- “There are giant human caucasian skeletons in Ohio that predate any known civilizations.”
- A GOP super PAC funded in part by former President Trump's leadership PAC The post Our American Century appeared first on FactCheck.org.
- An "essay" attributed to PragerU founder Dennis Prager was excerpted to Twitter in September 2022. The post ‘Dennis Prager Wrote a Whole Essay Whining About Men Having to Respect Women’s Sexual Boundaries’ appeared first on Truth or Fiction?.
- Raphael Warnock "called police thugs, then cut their funding."
- “CDC says 60% of Americans have parasites.”
- Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel said that she was joking when she said in a June speech that there should be “a drag queen for every school.” But a TV ad from a super PAC supporting Republican Tudor Dixon is using a version of Nessel’s quote out of context in a misleading attack against […]
- President Joe Biden admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
- Does a video circulating on social media show an elephant seal on a Florida street in the wake of Hurricane Ian? No, that's not true: The video is from a seaport community in southern Chile, where the large, flipper-footed mammal...
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 (494):
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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.
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.
