The free lunch program is a goverment initiative aimed at addressing the issue of stunting in Indonesia. This program focuses on toddlers, school-age children and pregnant women. Various opinions have emerged from the public regarding this initiative, especially through sosial media platform X (Twitter) and news portals. In this research, sentiment analysis was conducted to understand public responses to the program, whether they are positive, neutral or negative. To evaluate the accuracy of the sentiment analysis perfomed, a deep learning approach was applied using the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) algorithm. The results show that public sentiment varies responses, on social media X tend to be negative, while those on news portals tend to be positive toward the free lunch program in Indonesia. Through LSTM-based testing, sentiment analysis on tweet data achieved an accuracy of 88.6%, with a precision of 84.6%, recall of 88.6% and an F1-Score of 86.3%. Meanwhile, sentiment analysis on news portal data reached an accuracy of 89%, with a precision of 81.7%, recall of 89% and an F1-Score of 85.1%.