• protist@retrofed.com
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    22 hours ago

    This argument falls flat on its face when you apply it to what just happened in Hungary

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      21 hours ago

      Because Orban controlled TV and newspapers? How about Twitter, Facebook and TikTok?

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        He also controlled that as he could outspend the opposition 500 times as much on ads there. TikTok was fully Orbán-sided, Twitter was too despite not really being relevant in Hungary, Facebook was also on his side.

        Reddit was the one platform that wasn’t.

        Magyar’s counter was doing rallies and basically taking a year to go to every single settlement in Hungary.

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        All three of them are controlled by US tech oligarchs that are closely aligned with the US regime which was heavily interfering in favour of Orban as well. As far as I know you were flooded in all three with Fidesz propaganda and disinformation. Never mind that Russian propaganda is strong in all three of those as well and it was doing the same.

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            8 hours ago

            My bad. That was obly Tiktok in the OS. So it is under Chinese control. Either way Russian propaganda is ever oresent there.

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          12 hours ago

          I want this to be true. How have Hungarians managed to overcome the propaganda?