Such abuses, he said, go largely unaddressed because the majority of voters are unaware of them.“Following the Russian model, (the government) controls state media by hand and spends about 50 billion forints ($135 million) a year on advertisements … that sustain their own TV networks and websites,” he said.“The people that consume those media simply don’t hear about these things.
He has also been outspoken about what he sees as the damage Orbán’s “propaganda factory” has done to Hungary’s democracy.“It might be very difficult to imagine from America or Western Europe what the propaganda and the state machinery is like here,” Magyar said in an interview before elections with The Associated Press.“This parallel reality is like the Truman Show.
But according to Péter Krekó, an analyst and head of the Political Capital think tank in Budapest, Orbán has created “an almost Orwellian environment” where the government weaponizes control of a majority of news outlets to limit Hungarians’ decisions.“Hungary has become a quite successful informational autocracy, or spin dictatorship,” Krekó said.
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