🗣️ Political Capital’s Head of Programme, Bulcsú Hunyadi, recently participated in #Disinfo2026, Europe’s biggest conference on #disinformation. Organised by @DisinfoEU, an independent European civil society organisation, the conference attracted 650 participants from civil society, the media, academia, tech companies, and government institutions. 🌐 🔎 The conference discussed the latest trends facing the counter-disinformation community. During a panel on securitised information and shrinking civic space, Bulcsú discussed the establishment of informational autocracy and state-sponsored disinformation in Hungary under Viktor Orbán's premiership, why this system proved ineffective in the 2026 elections and the lessons it may offer counter-disinformation actors in other countries. 🤝 We are deeply grateful to @DisinfoEU for the organisation of the conference and for the invitation. By doing so, we stand in solidarity with them in the face of pressure from foreign actors, regardless of its origin.

📢 Our new report is out: The Enforcement Gap A joint report by @Alliance4Europe, @Pol_Cap and HDMO examined how Meta, Google and TikTok handled political advertising and coordinated inauthentic behaviour during Hungary’s 2026 election. 🔁 Meta repeatedly removed individual ads, but identical content kept coming back ❌ Google removed 0 of 15 reported political ads 🔍 TikTok found no violation in a coordinated network of 105 accounts The key problem: platforms often enforce rules content by content, while manipulation campaigns operate as networks. 👉🏼 Read the full investigation at: tinyurl.com/yeyvs75d

Is Hungary entering a new democratic era – or has it merely exchanged Orbán’s ‘spin dictatorship’ for Magyar’s ‘spin democracy’? In the new episode of the @VisegradInsight Podcast, @peterkreko, director of @Pol_Cap and professor of political psychology in Budapest, returns to assess Péter Magyar’s first 100 days in government with @wprzybylski, editor-in-chief of @VisegradInsight. Spotify – open.spotify.com/episode/10d… YouTube – youtu.be/N91i6RYIJtw Apple Podcasts – podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcas… Substack – visegradinsight.substack.com…

Many factors contributed to the Hungarian government’s election defeat, including social media campaigns which misfired as public trust eroded. Yet Russian-style disinformation remains a persistent threat. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2026/08/04…

Wojciech Przybylski @wprzybylski spoke with @peterkreko from the Political Capital on why the new Hungarian government sees V4+ as a foreign policy priority and how Hungary's relations with its neighbours may develop in the near future: visegradinsight.eu/hungary-w…

🏳️‍🌈 Anti-LGBTQIA+ disinformation is rising — join EDMO's next training module for an overview of current narratives, tactics and networks, case studies from Hungary, Czechia & Slovakia, and insights from GLAAD's 2026 Social Media Safety Index. Learn from: 👉@fiennes_guy, @ISDglobal 👉@bulcsuhunyadi, @HdmoHub, @Pol_Cap 👉Ivan Ruta Cuker, @CEDMOhub 👉Jenni Olson & Leanna Garfield, @glaad 🔗Register by 15 June: tinyurl.com/27sk5jce

Hungary's election was fought on two emotions. MORES co-investigator @peterkreko reflects on the emotional contrast between the two main campaigns in Hungary's April election: Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, which centred its messaging on fear, and Péter Magyar's TISZA, which campaigned on hope and the belief that change was possible. His analysis follows findings from a recent preregistered MORES study on democratic resilience—and how different narratives shape citizens' perceptions of political change. Watch more: bit.ly/4pxVcSO