The White House has launched a new website aimed at tracking what it deems “media bias” and inaccuracies—which itself contained inaccuracies.
The new “Media Bias” site went live on Friday, with the White House claiming it would help to expose “fake news.”
“Tired of the Fake News? We’ve got the place for you,” the official White House X account wrote. “Get the FACTS. Track the worst offenders. See the Fake News EXPOSED.”
However, the site was briefly taken down before reappearing with alterations. In the update, Fox News was removed as an “offender” after the White House incorrectly attributed questions asked in a press conference to a Fox News reporter.
“Fox News asked the White House to correct it and now there’s a 404 error where the page once was,” Washington Post media reporter Scott Nover wrote on X.
The site, which is once again live, currently includes 31 “fake news offenses” from 21 publications, with The Washington Post, CBS News and MSNBC at the top of the leaderboard.
Trump sued The Washington Post for defamation in 2020, but the case was dismissed by a federal judge in 2023. In July, the president received a $16 million settlement from CBS News over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris from 2024.
The new tracker is the latest move in the Trump administration’s anti-media campaign. Since January, journalists have been suspended from the Pentagon, removed from the White House press pack for critical coverage and news outlets have come under legal attack.
Stories logged on the site which the White House has taken objection to include: “Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves” from The Wall Street Journal, “The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Makes Up a Song to Slam Trump for Building White House Ballroom” from ABC News and “Republicans are Losing the Political Battle Over the Shutdown” from MSNBC.
“The Trump White House is holding the Fake News accountable like never before,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote a post announcing the site’s launch.
The site uses free infographics from Flourish, a data visualization app owned by U.K. graphic design company Canva, to illustrate its messaging.
The website is an inversion of the media’s historical attempts to track false and misleading claims made by President Donald Trump during his time in office.
The Post estimated that Trump made 30,573 such statements in his first term as president, an average of more than 20.9 per day.
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