Blog This is why social media censorship threatens freedom of speech and ultimately jeopardizes its very foundations Feb 09, 2021 - Zoltán Kovács Sadly, the censorship of conservative voices on the internet is nothing new, but recent events have taken matters too far, and it’s time to call out the tech giants for their threats to freedom of speech.
Blog The EUObserver published my letter…but only after they censored it Apr 24, 2020 - Zoltán Kovács On Friday afternoon, the EUObserver published a text I wrote in response to a polemical OpEd that they published on Thursday, written by Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth under the sensational title, “Stopping the authoritarian rot in Europe.” The editor finally got back to me on Monday. The explanation he gave is astonishing. But I'll get to that in a moment.
Blog When the Washington Post, and its anti-Hungary echo chamber, refuses to run my response Nov 13, 2017 Echo chambers – the lack of different opinions on a certain issue – are threatening people’s right to information in the modern age. In today’s world of social media saturated with fake news and sensational, online media fighting for page views, the echo chamber effect is growing, and those media outlets that pride themselves on professional journalism have a special obligation to restore a little reason to the discourse.