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Crying it out before collaboration
The Poor Mental State of Fidesz Media

Crying it out before collaboration

Posted on May, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

What else can you do if your country is turned into a stale, 20th century autocracy, but you don’t want to leave? Continue reading →

Happy Putin

The Putin-regime must have made a fortune placing ads next to their propaganda

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Misinformation campaigns aren’t just cheap – they are profitable. Continue reading →

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The race is on to publish the first poll results about the war – and the results are even more unreliable than usual

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Whoever delivers the first results about Hungarians’ supposed opinion about Putin’s war on Ukraine will influence public opinion more than it surveys it. This is why it is so worrying that the first polls are even more unreliable than usual. Continue reading →

Fighting propaganda in the villages
The Poor Mental State of Fidesz Media

Fighting propaganda in the villages

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

An A4 sheet of paper folded in two. That is what people in villages get from the real news. Continue reading →

Homophobic law: The pain is the point. And the distraction
Orbánist Cancel Culture

Homophobic law: The pain is the point. And the distraction

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

The Hungarian Associations of Psychology and Psychiatry released an announcement that the new homophobic law is scientifically wrong and damaging to young people. It was a courageous stance, albeit futile. The government knows perfectly well that they are wrong. And the damage might be the point. Continue reading →

Orbán’s media is not performing well
Der Untergang / The Poor Mental State of Fidesz Media

Orbán’s media is not performing well

Posted on November, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Dumbed-down propaganda and identical front pages don’t generate readership and loyalism is not enough qualification for an executioner – industry experience is also needed. Continue reading →

Orbán’s 2022 campaign themes are taking shape
Der Untergang / Election 2022

Orbán’s 2022 campaign themes are taking shape

Posted on November, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Orbán’s spin doctor has only one trick: hatemongering. It might not be enough this time, especially if he creates so many enemies that we run out of bandwidth to hate all of them. Continue reading →

They invented a new parade and copied Leni Riefenstahl beat by beat
2020 - Not 1920

They invented a new parade and copied Leni Riefenstahl beat by beat

Posted on August, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Can we say it now? Continue reading →

Republicans are Russia’s new useful idiots
Orbán's Useful Idiots

Republicans are Russia’s new useful idiots

Posted on August, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

The Russian autocrat of the day has changed the tune from left to right – and just like that, American Republicans have become Russia’s new useful idiots. Except, they are paid. Continue reading →

The Poor Mental State of Fidesz Media

What an actual conservative would ask Orbán on power, the media, NGOs and churches

Posted on August, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

If a real conservative commentator existed, and if he would be allowed to ask Orbán – he would be asking these questions. Continue reading →

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