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PM Orbán: Someone wants to make Hungary a target
The prime minister said "someone wants to involve Hungary in a hot conflict ... and make Hungary a target."
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NMHH launches campaign to help people identify fake news
Éva Tafferner, the authority’s communications director, said the campaign warns of the dangers of news-sharing as well as the risks of superficial reading.
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Liberale Medienberichte kontra Realität, Teil 2: Sanktionen gegen Panikmache und die Verbreitung von Fakenews
In den letzten Wochen war es ein wenig schwierig, in der internationalen Berichterstattung über Ungarn Beispiele für eine ausgewogene Berichterstattung oder einen Anschein von Objektivität zu finden.
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Liberal media reports vs. reality, Part 2: Sanctions against scaremongering and the spreading of fake news
Over the last several weeks of international reporting on Hungary, it’s been a little difficult to find examples of balanced coverage or some semblance of objectivity.
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Look who’s concerned about fake news now
Hungary may have been the first country to realize how coronavirus-related misinformation could put people’s lives at risk, but it surely won’t be the last, as leaders around the world now start to recognize the gravity of the threat.
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BREAKING: Hungary’s “Orwellian law” creates “a full-blown information police state in the heart of Europe.”
Just imagine! That’s deeply concerning. An “information police state.” Right here in the “heart of Europe.” I had no idea until I learned just how grave the situation is by reading it… in the free and lively Hungarian press.
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Stop fake news: Spreading false information during a state of emergency is wrong and dangerous
Particularly false information that undermines our best efforts to protect the population against a dangerous pandemic.
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Coronavirus Update: Man arrested for spreading fake news
Hungary’s police force have arrested and questioned a 30-year-old man suspected of spreading a false rumor over the internet that the authorities were about to close off Budapest in connection with the coronavirus.
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Police arrest two suspects for spreading fake news about coronavirus
Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said preventive measures implemented against the coronavirus by Hungary have so far proven effective.
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Hungary and Eurovision: fake news, fake news, fake news
As if it wasn’t already enough that Western, mainstream media outlets engage in politically driven disinformation campaigns against Hungary’s migration, economic, and family policies, now they’re taking shots at us on the topic of culture and music.
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ICYMI: US Ambassador Cornstein denies sanctions story as fake news
Last night, I tweeted about US Ambassador Cornstein’s interview that aired on Hungarian television. In the interview, the ambassador categorically denied a story that the US is planning sanctions against Hungary.
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FM: Politicians deviating from the liberal mainstream could become victims of fake news attacks
The foreign minister has said that any politician “deviating from the Liberal mainstream” could become the target of attacks by “globally operating liberal fake news factories"
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Fake News: No, Le Monde, Hungary was not alone in Shanghai
That might be a story, if it were true. But the Le Monde reporter got a few facts wrong