Yair Netanyahu Defends Hungary amid Accusations of Anti-Semitism "Criticizing George Soros is not anti-Semitism," Israeli columnist, radio host, and political influencer Yair Netanyahu said at the MCC Conference... 2023.01.27.
Teenagers are Hooked on TikTok, Media Authority Warns The National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) is concerned that ten to fifteen-year-old teenagers spend an average of two hours... 2023.01.25.
Elon Musk Takes the Lead over Twitter with Harsh Move Elon Musk decided to fire the entire board of Twitter and took sole control as director, reported The Telegraph. The... 2022.11.02.
Pro-Fidesz Megafon’s Facebook Ad Spending Exceeds HUF 1 Billion Megafon, a “center,” which according to its own definition was founded to spread conservative messages but in practice only spreads... 2022.03.31.
Facebook Deletes Far-right Mi Hazánk’s Page The non-parliamentary far-right Mi Hazánk party on Tuesday said it will file a criminal complaint for the disruption of the... 2022.03.30.
Parties Spend More on Political Ads on Social Media Alone than Total Amount of Campaign Funding Although the campaign season for the upcoming parliamentary election officially only began last Saturday in Hungary, the citizens of the... 2022.02.16.
Márki-Zay Publishes Campaign Spending and Family Asset Declarations in Wake of Accusations The opposition alliance's PM candidate, Péter Márki-Zay, published his campaign spending along with his and his family's asset declarations in... 2022.02.04.
PM Orbán Wins 2021 “Facebook Likes Championship” News portal Telex followed the likes and interactions Hungarian politicians received last year and made a list of those who got... 2022.01.06.
Facebook’s Ban List Leaked: Mostly Far-right Orgs, Websites, and Bands from Hungary 26 Hungarian names can be found on Facebook's recently-leaked list of banned entities that includes well over 4,000 individuals and... 2021.10.13.
Press Roundup: Government Accused of Using Spyware As the government stands accused of using spyware to monitor critical journalists and other individuals, a left-wing pundit likens PM... 2021.07.20.
The Financial Life of Hungary’s Gen Z: Online Shopping and Full-Time Jobs A large portion of young Hungarian adults work full-time jobs, donate to civil organizations, and prioritize their families and their... 2021.07.14.
Foreign Minister Calls for Preventing Tech Companies’ Interference in European Elections The European Union should prevent big tech companies from interfering in the European elections, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's foreign minister, said... 2021.07.13.
Social Media Use in Hungary Well over EU Average About 87 percent of Hungarian internet users participate on social media websites, well over the average rate of 65 percent... 2021.07.02.
Hungarian Satirical Football Page with Half a Million Fans Banned by Facebook The admins of the page announced on their Instagram page that after nine years and 454,000 followers, the meme page... 2021.06.18.
House Speaker Kövér Attributes Political Division to Loss of Trust Digitalisation and the growing illegitimate influence of private power-holders behind it is a challenge threatening the dignity and individual rights... 2021.05.11.
How a California Tech Company Might Influence Hungary’s Elections On April 8th, many Hungarian politicians noticed that their reach on Facebook had drastically dropped. As Facebook communicated later, this... 2021.04.27.
Gov’t Decides to Wait for Joint EU Regulation on Social Media Giants Although Judit Varga, Justice Minister, announced in January that the Ministry of Justice would submit a draft legislation to parliament... 2021.04.14.
Facebook Claims Hungarian Politicians’ Limited Reach ‘Temporary Technical Issue’ Both Hungary's pro-government and opposition politicians reported in the past few days that their posts on Facebook mysteriously reached far... 2021.04.12.
Justice Minister in Talks on Tech Giants’ Transparency Justice Minister Judit Varga on Friday met Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, to discuss the Hungarian... 2021.03.06.
Párbeszéd MP Tordai Temporarily Banned From Facebook Párbeszéd's Bence Tordai was banned by Facebook on Wednesday. While his restriction has since been revoked, Tordai suggests "Fidesz-trolls" behind... 2021.03.06.
Justice Minister Hails ‘Important Step’ in Lawful Cooperation with Facebook Facebook has paid 3.8 billion forints (EUR 10.6m) advertising tax to the Hungarian budget which was an "important step towards... 2021.02.12.
