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 Opportunity Cost of Trolling Our Northern Neighbor
  A poorer Canada means a poorer United States.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Media Satirist Damon Imani Has NEVER Argued With Sunny Hostin On "The View" — Fake Broadcast Clips Are His Schtick
  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? No
  The federal Education Department has a “budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.”
• PolitiFact: Facebook posts – No, JFK Jr. didn’t write a letter saying that former President Joe Biden was ‘a traitor’
  Files reveal that John F. Kennedy Jr. wrote a 1994 letter calling then-Sen. Joe Biden “a traitor” before Kennedy’s 1999 death.
• The Dispatch: Assessing J.D. Vance’s Claims About Immigration and Economic Growth
  The U.S. has experienced GDP per capita growth while its immigrant population has expanded.
• The Dispatch: Kill Switch
  Don't trust Americans.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: Post Says Venezuelan Soccer Player Jerce Reyes Barrios Was Deported To El Salvador Over Real Madrid Tattoo– What We Know
  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...
• PolitiFact: Live: Trump wants to close the Education Department. Here's what to know.
  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.
• PolitiFact: Facebook posts – Was Zelenskyy's Pennsylvania visit ‘election interference’? Why experts say no
  Says Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “engaged in election interference by campaigning” in Pennsylvania for former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
• Lead Stories: Fact Check: FAKE ‘Russell Robinson’ And ‘Dycorrian Wayne Lofton’ Facebook Warnings About 18-Year-Old Knocking On Doors, Stabbing — Part Of Scam
  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):

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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.