Political Journalist & Podcaster | Delacorte Fellow @CJR | @columbiajourn M.A. Politics class of '25 | @VisegradInsight Fellow. Views are my own.
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Hungarian state media channel M1, right now.
"Public media must not lie. We apologize for doing so for so many years. Public media is now undergoing a change to become independent and objective. Our news service is temporarily down. Stay tuned"
Mind you, I, as a Hungarian taxpayer, was paying this guy's salary to spread Orban's propaganda. It was 5x the median wage.
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary was neither the semi-fascist state its critics claimed, nor the model its admirers imagined. After four years living the experiment, @roddreher came home with clearer eyes.
“It’s easy to be against things—mass migration, Islamification, a thoroughly woke and oikophobic ruling class—but harder to be for something deep and substantial,” Dreher argues. “Orbán often said Europe will not save itself unless it returns to its ancestral faith, but as he knew, or at least discovered, politicians can do very little about that.”
Read the full story here: bit.ly/4gMLhX6
Hungarians made their voice heard—even as I was trying to tell @BBCNews about it all.
What a night, Budapest. What a night, Hungary.
When old and new beats meet: For @CJR, I spoke to @panyiszabolcs and Noémi Martini about the pressure on Hungarian journalists as Viktor Orbán desperately fights for reelection.
cjr.org/the_media_today/if-s…
Imagine watching from the Kremlin as your two incompetent puppets fail to execute the worst false flag operation in the world
Just so I understand this correctly: everything that Western newspapers say is misinformation, unless it suggests that Orban might not lose as disastrously as polls say? Got it.
What’s the takeaway for us from Politico’s article published today? – Part 1
➡️ @POLITICOEurope, Brussels’ “message board,” published an article on how the European Union would punish Hungary if @PM_ViktorOrban wins the elections.
Although the article itself is not particularly friendly, it clearly shows that even in Brussels, the Tisza Party and @magyarpeterMP are no longer seen as having a real chance, despite the many opinion polls being manipulated to suggest otherwise.
In Brussels, they are already expecting Viktor Orbán to remain Hungary’s prime minister!
This is also why they have launched a disinformation campaign about Russian interference, so they have something to fall back on when Tisza loses the election.
➡️ The article also proves that Tisza and Péter Magyar would vote for everything demanded by the @EPP: Ukrainian loans, migration policies, and the dismantling of utility price caps.
‼️So the conclusions are:
1.Viktor Orbán is in the lead.
2.The Tisza Party would vote in European decision-making not in the interest of the Hungarian people, but in the interest of @ManfredWeber.
These are now facts that even one of Brussels’ most important news outlets does not deny.
That figure is at $820,000 right now. I'm not saying that change is certainly coming in Hungary, but I've never seen this nation put their money where their mouth was like this before.
In just one day, ordinary Hungarians have donated more than 630 000 euros to Captain Bence Szabo. The detective exposed to journalists how the secret service allegedly started operations against the Tisza party, now he is without a job 4fund.com/62pmv8
In the final stretch of the campaign, Viktor Orbán is trying to overcome a nearly 20-point deficit in the polls—by fighting Ukraine instead of Péter Magyar. Will it work?
Here's my take for @ForeignPolicy
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/19…
For @CJR, I spoke to @DustinGouker about Kalshi, Polymarket, Iran and the press.
I'd say there's an 87% chance that journalism is safe.
cjr.org/the-interview/are-pr…
Only 6/21 Board of Peace members voted in favour of a Ukraine peace resolution at the UN General Assembly.
I am grateful to each of the 107 countries that stood with Ukraine today in defense of life at the @UN.
The General Assembly adopted our resolution in support of a lasting peace, with clear calls for a full ceasefire and the return of our people.
These are the right and necessary steps. And we will keep working actively to achieve peace, together with our partners.
who's going to tell him that Bulgaria is in the EU
🌍 🕊️ These politicians want peace!
🇭🇺 It's telling that @PM_ViktorOrban was the only European leader to receive an invitation.
🇪🇺 Brussels wants to drag the continent into war! We must not allow it!
Orban driving on the wrong side of the road and blaming others for crashing will never not be funny
🛢️ @PM_ViktorOrban: Ukraine is blackmailing Hungary. The Druzhba oil pipeline has halted deliveries, forcing us to access strategic reserves. This pressure is meant to drag Hungary into a pro-war coalition. We are under enormous pressure to join the war. We continue to resist.
I spoke to @Lescarpenter, who is still covering the Winter Olympics for the Washington Post — despite the renowned sports section being eliminated as a whole last week. Read our interview on @CJR
cjr.org/the-interview/les-ca…
