A summary of research on the occurrence and dangers of fake news in the education system, and possible ways of combating the phenomenon
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Budapest on 7 November.
During the October 2019 elections, the government-organised media launched a massive disinformation campaign against the opposition.
A summary of the joint study of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Political Capital on the consequences of the most recent elections in Hungary
The actions of far-right organisations in Budapest on 23 October surprised many, and several premature explanations have been published. Here is Political Capital’s take on the topic in five points.
A joint conference of Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and Political Capital
A joint conference of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Political Capital
On 10 October, the European Parliament approved a resolution condemning foreign electoral interference and disinformation in democratic processes with a vast majority. The result of the vote on text, similarly to previous cases, shows that the Kremlin has nowhere near enough friends in the EP to inf
The Hungarian municipal election has clearly brought a breakthrough for the opposition, as the performance of the joint opposition candidates exceeded all expectations. It was proven that, similarly to Turkey and Russia, the ruling party can be beaten even in the hybrid framework of the current poli
The Orbán regime has abused its institutional and informal power advantage more than ever before during the electoral campaign for the municipal elections held on 13 October.
Brief overview - most important milestones of how the country’s illiberal system has been built up in the last 9 years