April 15, 2026

Hungary’s incoming prime minister Péter Magyar is moving fast to take on the country’s state media, vowing to suspend news coverage he blasted as a “propaganda machine” when his government takes power around mid-May. Fresh off a landslide that ended Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in office, Magyar used tense, high-stakes interviews with public radio and TV to accuse broadcasters of fearmongering and lies, likening their output to North Korea and Nazi-era propaganda. He says a new press law and media authority are coming to restore “truth” to public service media — while the state media authority insists it repeatedly invited him in.

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