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Research papers, tools, and guides that use Iffy resources.

Research papers

The efficacy of Facebook’s vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023-09)
High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets (2023-09)
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale (2023-08)
The role and influence of perceived experts in an anti-vaccine misinformation community (2023-08)
CoVaxNet: An Online-Offline Data Repository for COVID-19 Vaccine Research (2023-07)
Auditing Algorithmic Communication Flows (2023-06)
MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts’ Sharing of Misinformation (2023-06)
Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites (2023-05)
aedFaCT: Scientific Fact-Checking Made Easier via Semi-Automatic Discovery of Relevant Expert Opinions (2023-05)
Large language models can rate news outlet credibility (2023-04)
Introducing Arbiter: Auditing the Spread of News in Online Information Ecosystems (2023-04)
Catch Me if You Can: On the Detection of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on Social Media and Its Limits (2023-03 preprint)
Turning Wikimedia into a news-site credibility tool (2023-03)
A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories’ Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet (2023-01)
Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation’s Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions (2023-01)
High level of agreement across different news domain quality ratings (2022-12 preprint)
Propaganda and Misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022-12)
Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter (2022-11)
The Belt and Road Initiative on Twitter: An annotated dataset (2022-11)
Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy (2022-09)
One year of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Twitter (2022-08)
Emergent Technologies and Extremists: The DWeb as a New Internet Reality? (2022-08)
Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media (2022-07 preprint)
CoVaxNet: An Online-Offline Data Repository for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Research (2022-06)
Measuring the effect of Facebook’s downranking interventions against groups and websites that repeatedly share misinformation (2022-06)
Harnessing Web Archives to Tackle Selected Societal Challenges (2022-06)
Monitoring User Opinions and Side Effects on COVID-19 Vaccines in the Twittersphere: Infodemiology Study of Tweets (2022-05)
Facebook’s Architecture Undermines Vaccine Misinformation Removal Efforts (2022-04)
Virality Project: Memes, Magnets, and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines (2022-02)
Evaluating the Efficacy of Facebook’s Vaccine Misinformation Content Removal Policies (2022-02)
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Social Media: Building a Public Twitter Dataset of Anti-vaccine Content, Vaccine Misinformation and Conspiracies (2021-11)
Falsehood in, falsehood out: Measuring exposure to elite misinformation on Twitter (2021-09)
Services for measuring and tracking perception and behaviour towards misinformation, European Commission/Co-Inform (2021-08)
The Polarized Web of the Voter Fraud Claims in the 2020 US Presidential Election (2021-05)
The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19vaccinations (2021-04)
The Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter (2021-03)
CoVaxxy: A global collection of English-language Twitter posts about COVID-19 vaccines (2021-02)
Encounters with Visual Misinformation and Labels Across Platforms: An Interview and Diary Study to Inform Ecosystem Approaches to Misinformation Interventions (2020-12)

Misinfo tools

Civic Tech Field Guide: Sharing knowledge and productively growing the field.
CoVaxxy: Visualize the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine adoption and online (mis)information, Observatory on Social Media.
DeepSee: Identify and avoid high-risk publishers at scale (monitors 20M sites).
Ebiquity: Create responsible media investments by defunding disinformation.
Have I Shared Fake News?: List the hyperpartisan/low-quality and fake news shared by any Twitter handle, along with the political slant.
Hoaxy: Visualize the spread of claims and fact checking, Observatory on Social Media.
Misinfo.me: Assess the credibility of your information source.
Wikicred / Arbiter: Auditing the Spread of News in Online Information Ecosystems
Wikicred / Wikipedia Source Controversiality Metrics: Generate and assess actionable metrics for source controversiality in Wikipedia.