The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, tracking how misinformation and fact-checks spread on social media is key for understanding where fact-checking efforts need to be focused and what demographics are most likely to spread misinformation. In this article, we introduce the Fact-checking Observatory, a website that automatically generates human-readable weekly reports about the spread of misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter. The proposed approach differs from other tools that give one-off manual reports or visualisation by providing organisations and individuals with easily readable and shareable self-contained reports that contain both information about the spread of misinformation and fact-checks.