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As the war over health care reform continues to heat up, President Barack Obama seems to be following Sarah Palin’s example and taking the battle to the Internet.

On Monday the White House launched a new website “Reality Check”, which seems to be a viral tool aimed at dispelling and responding to accusations and rumors that are swirling around Obama’s health care reform plans.

“We’re offering the site and tools to empower individuals across the country to take this content into their own hands and share it among their networks,” an administration official said. “That’s the sort of bottom-up process that got us to the White House, and it’s what’s going to deliver meaningful change to the health insurance system.”

The new site features a range of tools to make it easy for members of the general public to email entire pages to friends and colleagues, as well as pre loaded messages designed for users to post on their own social media profiles.

There is also a 2,000word FAQ section, which too can be easily shared, that is designed to cover many of the issues that have become cloudy for many over the past few weeks, including the much debated “end of life counseling” issue that upset the former Governor of Alaska last week.

The Obama administration is of course no strangers to this kind of online campaign. The success of the “Learn the Truth about Obama” website may have been a blueprint for this new venture.

All of this comes as Nancy Pelosi wrote in a US Today op ed piece that the volatile disruptions that have occurred at town hall meetings across the country are “simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”

But this is not a debate that will be easily settled. While Obama rallies the masses online, something which proved so successful for him during his election campaign, there are opponents who are also as passionate about defeating his plans.

In an extreme example on Friday North Carolina congressman Brad Miller told a number of media outlets that he had not only had protesters outside his office in Washington who were upset about his support for Obama’s plans but that he had also received a death threat by telephone. According to Miller the caller told one of his staffers that the congressman could “lose his life” for supporting the reform plans. Capitol officials are still investigating the call and had no official comment.