The White House's launch of flag@whitehouse.gov and the email campaign to encourage Americans to report misinformation and "fishy claims" by passing along “an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy to flag@whitehouse.gov" has been vehemently criticized and the email account has been disabled.

Last week, White House Director of Media Macon Phillips wrote in a blog post on White House.gov, “An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo."

In a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last week, President Obama responded to the fact that Conservatives were turning themselves in on the White House Web page the other day for being a skeptic of this bill.  President Obama fought back, saying, "Can I just say this is another example of how the media just ends up completely distorting what’s taking place, "What we’ve said is that...if you get an email from somebody that says for example, 'ObamaCare is creating a death panel,' forward us the email and we will answer the question that is being raised in the email. Suddenly, on some of these news outlets, this is being portrayed as Obama collecting an enemies list. Now, come on guys, here I am trying to be responsive to questions that are being raised out there."

As of now, flag@whitehouse.gov is shutdown and all emails regarding misinformation will need to be sent through the White House’s “Reality Check” website.