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Black Cube-style operation used in smear campaign against NGOs

elections, NGO, Viktor Orban

This is how the fake billionaire looked like in videoconference with one of our sources. Source: Atlatszo.hu

The video interviews published by pro-government Hungarian newspaper aimed at discrediting foreign correspondents and NGOs critical of the government were made under suspicious circumstances.

Gabriella Horn

11.02.2022

NGO? We don’t want you here

NGO

Shutterstock/Sasun Bughdaryan

Independent, non-governmental watchdogs are always treated as an enemy by illiberal states and wannabe dictators. Viktor Orban’s Hungary is a classic example, but know a similar danger is growing in Poland.

Konrad Szczygieł

30.07.2020