Editor-in-chief of Russian propaganda website relocated to Budapest is named Mária Schmidt
The organisation was sanctioned by the United Kingdom in May 2026.
The organisation was sanctioned by the United Kingdom in May 2026.
We spoke with Rozana Tuzsanszka, co-founder of the Transcarpathian news portal Varosh, about Russian disinformation affecting Transcarpathia and the media situation there.
"Blocking Russian disinformation channels alone will not significantly shape public opinion, but that is not how we think. Since we are at war with Russia, we are targeting the operations that Russia is spending resources on," the manager of the Ukrainian project Break the Fake told Átlátszó.
Consistent with the Orbán government's tactics a disinformation campaign is impersonating opposition MEPs, using the LGBTQ Pride controvery to smear them.
Click-hunting, incitement against Muslims, Russian war propaganda - these are the goals that have led people to act out fictional scenes and distribute the footage as real.
Behind the pro-Kremlin, conspiracy and alt-right disinformation ecosystem in Central and Eastern Europe. Who trumpets the anti-western symphony?
The disinformation ecosystem not only shares and spreads the fake news fabricated by sloppily assembled, pro-Kremlin websites within itself, but sometimes it is also republished by some Hungarian pro-government media outlets (Origo, Magyar Nemzet, HírTV, Mandiner, Pesti Srácok) and even by public broadcasting channels (hirado.hu).
Mindenszo.hu, which calls itself a “politically incorrect blog”, is known as a deceptive news site, notable for its unusually angry...
Google has decided to remove the Hungarian-language conspiracy theory website, Világ Helyzete due to misleading pro-Kremlin propaganda. But the editor...
February and March has been quite interesting months as far as disinformation and fake news go: we could read several...
The new year began with the same old disinformation narratives: we could read several fake stories about the coronavirus vaccines,...