Brief for the press and policy professionals
On April 12, Hungarians will vote in a high-stakes general election where Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz is facing its toughest challenge since its rise to power in 2010 from the Tisza Party of Péter Magyar. This brief builds on the work of Lakmusz, an independent Hungarian fact-checking site. It summarizes the main disinformation themes and techniques we have observed in the campaign so far and outlines three important phenomena that affected the (dis)information ecosystem: the use of generative AI, the prohibition of political advertising by major social platforms, and foreign interference.