Hungary’s media reckoning: how Péter Magyar is tearing down Orbán’s propaganda empire

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By shutting down M1’s news and dismantling the state media conglomerate that powered Orbán across 16 years, Magyar is testing how far a new Hungarian government can go in rewriting the rules of information and how loudly the old guard in Budapest and Brussels will protest.

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