The White House Media Tracker: Who Got Flagged and Why?

The White House unveiled a new “Media Bias Tracker”, a public web page labelling news outlets and individual journalists as “media offenders” based on alleged misleading or biased coverage.

The site’s banner reads “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” and its first “Offenders of the Week” are listed as CBS News, The Boston Globe and The Independent, criticized for their coverage of a congressional video, referred to by the administration as involving “sedition.”

Beyond weekly flags, the site hosts a permanent “Hall of Shame,” a searchable database that catalogs dozens of articles with full outlet and reporter names, and labels like “bias,” “misrepresentation,” “left-wing lunacy” or “lie.” Among those listed are The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Axios, Politico, ABC News and others.

The White House frames the tracker as a push toward media accountability and transparency. Critics, however, view it as a formal escalation in its long-running dispute with mainstream media.