White House Media Bias Portal Inflames Freedom of the Press Debate

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In a bold move to challenge what it calls pervasive misinformation in mainstream media, the White House under President Donald Trump has launched a new online portal dedicated to tracking and exposing alleged biases, lies, and distortions in news coverage. The initiative, announced in late November 2025, features a “Media Offenders” section on the official White House website, highlighting outlets like The Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN as repeat offenders in categories such as “left-wing lunacy” and “omission of context.” The portal includes interactive leaderboards ranking networks by repeated inaccuracies and a “Hall of Shame” for persistent violators, aiming to provide Americans with “unfiltered truth” amid ongoing tensions between the administration and journalists.

The launch coincides with a call to action for the public to submit tips on biased or false reporting. White House officials describe the effort as a “service to truth and transparency,” emphasizing that “the days of the Fake News Media controlling the narrative with lies, fake anonymous sources, and willful bias are over.” Valid submissions will update the database weekly, potentially amplifying public scrutiny of media practices. Supporters hail it as a necessary counter to perceived liberal bias, with the administration tying it to recent legal victories, including multimillion-dollar settlements from ABC and Paramount over alleged misrepresentations.

Critics, however, view the portal as an escalation in Trump’s war on the press, warning it could intimidate journalists and undermine First Amendment protections. Press freedom advocates argue it blurs the line between accountability and government overreach.

The rollout follows a series of personal attacks by Trump on reporters, including derogatory remarks toward female journalists from major networks. As of December 3, 2025, the portal has drawn mixed reactions on social media, with some users praising its transparency while others decry it as authoritarian. With trust in media at historic lows, the initiative tests the boundaries of executive influence over public discourse, potentially setting a precedent for future administrations.

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  1. Definitely different than a “Ministry of Truth,” i.e., 1984. I fail to see how the government refuting press releases undermines anyone’s freedoms. It merely allows them rebuttals and allows the public to decide who to believe.

    • I think you also “fail to see” (or remember, or wish to see) who these public servants, and I use the term loosely, work for, are accountable to.

    • We’re all the LibTards, MSM, and Covid pushers when YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, BigBanks, corporations, universities were DePlatforming and banning anyone who wasn’t following the dictates of BigPharma, TransMania, DEI, ESG narratives???

      The Left has already resorted to violence in defense of their twisted pagan views – wonder what’ll happen when the Christian America First Right does?

    • Think on these, Charlie: goodness, truth, and justice. Good guys finish last. Truth…yeah, yeah–only the official line! Justice–if you can afford it and have the right connections. There is no need to “speculate” on who said, “For ye have the poor with you always…” But you’ve heard it here, “Goodness, truth, and justice never will be yours if you think of them as mere clichés.”

  2. We are in the Information Age that should be coupled with Truth to allow each of our citizens (including Alaskans) to hear/see/read and then make a choice based real facts…not pieced together phrases to achieve the Infamous 4am Talking Points spoon fed to the sleepy citizenry ad nauseum.

    I personally get most of my news not from the Gray Lady, not MSM, not BBC, and certainly not from ADN but from citizen news outlets, though today I amusingly read their headlines.

    Yes! Let us have a site to call out these inconsistencies of fake news.

    • The moon is made of cheese and the world is flat and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise. I’ve raised eight children by the sweat of my brow, and a heaping-helping of government assistance checks and subsidies and I will soon go to my grave, with many grandchildren to carry on my memory. I will decide what is fake and true until that day, and I don’t need the help of rank choice voting.

  3. We need the White House to control the rest of the media the way they have managed to with the Pentagon press corps–media should only be allowed to report on the official press releases and what is said at press conferences, anything else can be lies or manipulated. That would be transparency.

  4. The funny thing is it is so obvious to anybody with common sense to see the lies and distortion of the left-wing media, unless you are a left-wing nut job! Those folks eat it up like a free buffet! (can’t wait for the dimlibby replies to my comment, always entertaining)

  5. Well Boston just raised their taxes to 13% which is about the total on all the taxes added in the last few years since democrats came to.town in the assembly and mayor.

  6. In order for our form of government, the republic, to function as written by the founders the press should be reporting the news factually. Freedom of speech is profoundly freedom of political speech. The electorate needs to be honestly informed. In a small population state like Alaska it is possible to hinder speech to the extent the results are impugned and detrimental to those guaranteed free speech and representatives who know and support the US Constitution.

  7. Any mention of media bias is automatically Donald trumps fault even though the media is attacking him. I have a friend who blames Trump for the first and second world wars. And there’s no reasoning with with him. Like talking to a broken record.

  8. Journalism use to be report what is said in entirety and let the citizens decide what they will say. What has become of the journalist since the early 90s has been to report what one side will promote as truth and demonize the other side as being untruthful.

  9. The site only tells the other side. You can still decide which you choose to believe. This is absolutely not a freedom of speech problem.

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