A former tabloid journalist, Ágnes Forgács worked for Ripost, an outlet that combined tabloid methods with intelligence material likely coming from government sources for political goals.
The activities of Brussels-based news site Brussels Signal were financed in full by Fidesz-aligned media holding Mediaworks during 2024, to the tune of EUR 1.5m.
Entities in the orbit of BLA, MCC – known financiers of the Orbán government’s influence machinery – revealed to have received funding from Hungarian culture fund’s scandalous recent grants.
In an ongoing paid ad campaign, shown to millions of Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube users, an animated ad depicts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar as trash to be dumped out.
Overnight, Ukrainian scammers have become one of the country’s biggest threats according to pro-government media, not long after Putin, followed by Orbán warned against Ukrainian cybercrime.
The semi-official government paper Magyar Nemzet lost 24 lawsuits, while Átlátszó, Magyar Hang and RTL won all of their cases.
Long-time Fidesz campaigner Gyula Balásy's companies are winning communication contracts with no real competition.
Mediaworks topped the list in the field of infringements of personality rights with 25 convictions. Átlátszó, RTL and Telex did not lose a single case.
Origo is the record holder with 13 negative verdicts, while Pesti Srácok is in second place with 8 lost cases. Independent newspapers lost only 6 cases in total.
The opposition representative of the Dunakeszi Municipality secretly wrote articles for a local online newspaper reinforcing the narrative of Fidesz,
After five months of waiting, we finally had access to the files of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office on government campaigns.
