{"id":37448,"date":"2026-03-11T04:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/37448\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:37:16","slug":"eu-in-a-bind-as-deepfakes-flood-hungarian-election-campaign-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/37448\/","title":{"rendered":"EU in a bind\u00a0as\u00a0deepfakes flood Hungarian election campaign \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry Ursula, I always choose the left side,\u201d the fake Magyar says, grinning at the camera as the car heads toward signs for war and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Magyar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/magyarpeterMP\/status\/2031389507463852095?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Tuesday more organized campaigns to discredit him are coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018New shiny tool\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Since Hungary\u2019s election campaign kicked off this year,\u00a0disinformation has been ripe and AI\u00a0labeling\u00a0has not been consistently enforced,\u00a0said Botond\u00a0Feledy, a non-resident fellow at the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy, a Budapest-based think tank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2265250873-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8084304\"  \/>As Orb\u00e1n\u2019s allies portray Magyar as a stooge of Brussels, they are also taking aim at anti-misinformation efforts from the bloc. | Balint Szentgallay\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEU actors even at the political level hardly picked a fight with Orban on domestic disinformation, not to mention any official measures,\u201d Feledy said.<\/p>\n<p>Szil\u00e1rd\u00a0Tecz\u00e1r, the editor-in-chief of fact-checking organization\u00a0Lakmusz, said a group called the National Resistance Movement has \u201crepeatedly published AI-generated videos targeting the opposition Tisza Party and its leader P\u00e9ter Magyar.\u201d The movement\u2019s owner is the pro-government influencer network\u00a0Megafon.<\/p>\n<p>Tecz\u00e1r\u00a0said the overarching narrative is that if the government loses the election, Brussels and Magyar\u2019s Tisza party would \u201cprioritize the needs of Ukraine, take money away from Hungarians,\u201d and drag the country into the war with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t worry Ursula, I always choose the left side,\u201d the fake Magyar says, grinning at the camera as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,1298,425,2430,2431,4930,11485,21476,3039,4580,2433,11648,21477,2434,6552,1445,7004,2255,213,3048,238,1446,4628,4582,1537,241,76,1888,4038,546],"class_list":["post-37448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-cars","tag-democracy","tag-digital","tag-disinformation","tag-elections","tag-enforcement","tag-highways","tag-hungary","tag-kremlin","tag-media","tag-meps","tag-michael-mcgrath","tag-misinformation","tag-peter-magyar","tag-platforms","tag-policing","tag-regulatory","tag-rights","tag-romania","tag-russia","tag-social-media","tag-space","tag-tanks","tag-tax","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116208693754609438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}