Hungary’s media reckoning: how Péter Magyar is tearing down Orbán’s propaganda empire

By shutting down M1’s news and dismantling the state media conglomerate that powered Orbán across 16 years, Magyar is testing how far a new Hungarian government can go in rewriting the rules of information and how loudly the old guard in Budapest and Brussels will protest.

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Hungary’s media reckoning: how Péter Magyar is tearing down Orbán’s propaganda empire

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