Facebook Removes Hungarian Coronavirus Skeptic Pages Facebook has banned some of Hungary's most notable virus denier, virus skeptic, and anti-mask groups from its platform. The removal... 2020.09.25.
Mi Hazánk Would Restrict Facebook’s ‘Political Censorship’ Deputies representing the extra-parliamentary Mi Hazánk party will submit a proposal to restrict "harsh political censorship" exercised by Facebook, party... 2020.08.08.
Párbeszéd Calls on Gov’t to Drop ‘Attempts to Restrict Facebook’ Opposition Párbeszéd has proposed a parliamentary decree under which the government would be obliged to give up its "attempts to... 2020.08.06.
2020 Brain Bar Festival to Be Held Online for Free due to Coronavirus Due to public health concerns and restrictions of public gatherings in Hungary, the organizers of the 2020 Brain Bar Festival... 2020.08.05.
Hungary’s Data Protection Chief Proposes ‘Facebook Law’ Hungary’s Data Protection Chief proposed a new legislation which would enable social media platforms to ban people from their services... 2020.08.04.
Digital Freedom Cttee Turns to Facebook Regional Head over Issue of Transparency, Neutrality The justice ministry's digital freedom committee aimed at improving the transparency of tech firms has penned a letter to the... 2020.06.03.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Debate Over Free Speech and Censorship The leading pro-government daily accuses ‘George Soros and his network’, in a series of articles, of censoring Facebook content and... 2020.05.18.
Police Investigating Facebook Users for ‘Spreading Fake News’ Causes Uproar in Hungary During the state-of-emergency due to the spread of the coronavirus, under the Authorization act, the so-called "coronavirus law," the government... 2020.05.13.
Mi Hazánk Leader Sues Facebook for Damage to Reputation The leader of the non-parliamentary far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) party said on Wednesday that he is suing Facebook for... 2020.04.29.
Hungary’s Competition Office Levies Biggest Ever Fine on Facebook Hungary's competition office GVH said on Friday that it levied a 1.2 billion forint (EUR 3.6m) fine on Facebook. The... 2019.12.09.
Rule of Law Sanctions Only against Anti-immigration Governments, Says Justice Minister The Hungarian government's political opponents "have completely distorted" the idea of the rule of law, Justice Minister Judit Varga said... 2019.09.05.
Facebook Must Guarantee User Privacy, Demands Data Protection Authority Facebook must provide written guarantees that it would not disclose the transcripts of users' voice calls to third parties, or... 2019.08.15.
Orbán Govt to ‘Regulate’ Facebook and Google to Stop ‘Censorship’ Finding ways to regulate the excessive power of multinational technology companies will be one of the biggest challenges of the... 2019.08.12.
Profiles of Hungarian Facebook Users Mysteriously Disappear Thousands of Hungarian Facebook accounts were mysteriously disabled between last Sunday and Wednesday. Users reported problems of logging in to the... 2019.06.20.
Mi Hazánk Calls for Legislators to Act against Facebook Far-right Mi Hazánk is calling on legislators to take action against Facebook "censorship" and "the monopoly on opinion by left-liberals",... 2019.05.23.
Recent Facebook Case Reinforces Anxiety in the Right In a recent scandal, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was ousted from Facebook allegedly due to his support of Donald Trump during... 2018.11.14.
Facebook Ads, Trolls, and Russian Hackers: The Impact of Social Media and Digital Giants on Politics in 2017 2017 was a long and tough year for everyone who deals with politics. An unusually large number of political scandals... 2018.01.05.
