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Hungarian government is about to spend another €31 million on propaganda
In the middle of April, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister signed a framework contract worth HUF 10 billion...
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Hungarian government spent €48 million on propaganda in first three months of 2019
The government of Hungary spent 15.4 billion Hungarian forints (approximately 48 million euros at today’s exchange rate) on spreading its...
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Propaganda is bad business: circulation of paper overtaken by pro-government forces drops
Every single regional newspaper in Hungary is owned by pro-Orban forces today. However, being taken over by an oligarch and...
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Pro-government propaganda outlets lost dozens of defamation cases in court last year
Prime minister Viktor Orban often accuses independent media outlets of being ’fake news.’ However, numbers suggest that it is the...
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€46.3 million spent on advertising by ’propaganda ministry’ in the last quarter of 2018
The Hungarian government keeps spending huge amounts of money on propaganda. According to our research, the ministry led by Antal...
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The government of Hungary spent €216 million on propaganda and fearmongering in the past 8 years
The Hungarian government spent 69.3 billion Hungarian forints (approximately €216 million at today’s exchange rate) on propaganda and fearmongering in...
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Data visualization: this is how the pro-government media empire owning 476 outlets was formed
This week 476 media outlets became parts of the new Hungarian media holding controlled by pro-government forces. The name of...
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Half of the October posts on the Hungarian government’s Facebook page were anti-migration fearmongering messages
Nearly half of the posts on the Hungarian government’s Facebook page were anti-migration messages in October, which shows that Viktor...
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Atlatszo received €109,000 in microdonations and €71,000 in income tax 1 percents so far in 2018
Atlatszo has been a target of the government-funded propaganda media since we published our stories about the luxury jet used...
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Hungarian government allocated €18.2 million of taxpayers money on advertising campaign against Sargentini, Soros, and Verhofstadt
On the day of the vote on the Sargentini report in the European Parliament, the Hungarian Cabinet Office of the...
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