Elections 2024
The 2024 EP and municipal elections in Hungary are held on 9th June.
On this page, we track, analyze and monitor paid content promoted during the 2024 election campaign and reveal who is funding it. In addition – for the first time in Hungary – we also attempt to show how much money each social media platform is making by promoting false and misleading information.
Who is advertising, what and for how much?
Our tables are updated weekly (Tuesdays) from 15 February 2024.
Research
The researchers of Political Capital and Mérték Médiaelemező Műhely regularly publish research on electoral disinformation during the campaign period (published in Hungarian on this page.) A selection of research papers is available in English:
- Summary report: Fidesz & Co. flooded social media with anti-Western hostile disinformation in Hungary’s election campaign, reaching EU spending records (Political Capital, Lakmusz, Mérték)
- Midterm report: Pro-government political advertisements are in record heights in Hungary, promoting hostile narratives against the West (Political Capital)
Fact-checks
Every week during the campaign season, the journalists of Lakmusz write fact-checking articles about false and misleading claims advertised online. Our articles are avaiable in Hungarian on this page. A selection of fect-checks of international relevance is also avaiable in English:
- How does anyone who is not a friend of Fidesz become a “leftist”?
- Megafon advertises for more than €100k that ”pro-war left wing politicians” are leading us into the third world war
- Violations of LGBTQI+ rights and asylum seeker rights are not the only issues for holding back EU funds from Hungary
- Action for Democracy claims that the footage “exposing” Soros and the Hungarian united opposition’s campaign was made using secret service methods
- Megafon’s pro-government influencer advertises for thousands of Euros on Facebook that the German government wants to go to war
- Megafon spent 25 thousand euros in a week to discredit the German government
