Like languages, COVID-19 misinformation is living and evolving. It also tends to come in waves, and has coalesced and reverberated around certain themes.  

This dashboard tracks and visualizes fact-checked COVID-19 claims from 100s of trusted fact-checkers from around the world. The fact-checks were automatically categorized based on an expert-curated dictionary list which groups claims into one (or more) of 15 common claim types. The table below shows claims that correspond to your filter.

The coding schema was developed based on our manual review of thousands of debunked claims containing keywords “COVID” or “Coronavirus” (as recorded by the Google Fact Check Tools since January 22, 2020).  The coding schema was developed to facilitate a systematic review and grouping of similar claims under the same claim type. 

By applying the coding schema, researchers can study the types of claims that are circulating online and offline, their prevalence and persistence over time. The coding schema can also inform work by policy makers and developers when implementing different mitigation strategies in response to different claim types.

[The first version of this coding schema, with seven initial categories, was published in Policy Options Magazine on April 14, 2020.}