The 2024 EP and municipal elections in Hungary will be held on 9 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, and for the first time in Hungary, we will also attempt to show how much money each social media platform is making by promoting false and misleading information.
Our tables are updated weekly (Tuesdays) from 15 February 2024.
The researchers of Political Capital and Mérték Médiaelemező Műhely regularly publish research on electoral disinformation during the campaign period. The articles published so far:
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: