Milei creates a body to deny the press (whenever necessary)

The Argentine presidency inaugurated, this Thursday, an “Official Response Office”, with the aim, according to President Javier Milei, of “unmasking the lies and maneuvers of the media” regarding government action.

Os journalists are worriedin Argentina, after the Presidency created a body to deny the “lies” of the press.

In its first message on social network X, this body explains that it was created “to actively deny lies, point out concrete falsehoods and highlight the maneuvers of the media and the political caste“.

“Limiting yourself to ‘informing’ is not enough if misinformation advances without a response,” adds the message. “In addition to informing, it is necessary to deny it clearly and directly”, he adds.

O “ultraliberal” president Javier Milei posted the inaugural ad on its own X account, adding a comment: “To expose the lies and maneuvers of the media.”

Neither the “Cabinet” account nor any official comment accompanying its launch specify how it will work or who will manage the account, as distinct from the official account of the Argentine presidency.

The initiative comes as a result of Javier Milei’s conflicting relations with the presswhich the Argentine head of state regularly denigrated, and even insulted, attacking journalists by name, during his first year and a half in office, before a relative calm, since mid-2025.

O Clarin newspaper (conservative), a regular target of Mileiwas the first to be hit by the “Official Response Office”, being accused of a “crude maneuver” for having published a article about supposed “delays” in the program government social assistance and employment.

The influential Argentine media association Adepa expressed in a statement its “concern” about this account, which “starts from the assumption that someone lies” and recalled that, in a democracy, “the State is more of a source of information, not the arbiter of public truth”.

This type of state body “runs the risk of becoming a mechanism of surveillance, stigmatization or indirect repression of journalism and opinions criticism”, highlights Adepa.

The initiative is reminiscent of the “Media Bias” website, launched at the end of 2025 in the USA, which presents itself as “a census of false and misleading information from the media, flagged by the White House”, whose tenant, US President Donald Trump, is a close ally of Javier Milei.