'Dollar' media to influence Hungarian voters with fake prescription and Covid vaccination sites and 4bn forints - video

CovidVaccination.info, Recipes.today, Joke Magazine... These are the English names of the online platforms used by Hungary's opposition "dollar" media to try and influence the 2022 parliamentary elections with over HUF 4bn that was pumped into the left wing's campaign from abroad. The sites - which are of course no longer operational - used political content to persuade voters not to vote for the governing parties.

Karácsony Gergely, Bajnai Gordon, Jávor Benedek. Fotó: MTI/Máthé Zoltán Fotó: Máthé Zoltán

After the election, they stopped running these ads abruptly, and most of the above-mentioned sites have not published any content since June 15, 2022.

As is well known, according to a report published by the National Information Center, more than HUF 4 billion came to Hungary from the United States and through a Swiss foundation – with the assistance of David Koranyi's Action for Democracy group –  to support the opposition left wing's election campaign. Around 90 percent of this money went to DatAdat, a data collection company spearheaded by ex-PM Gordon Bajnai, and Oraculum 2020 Ltd.
It is noteworthy that the bookkeeping headquarters of DatAdat and Oraculum 2020 Ltd., as well as the „payola headquarters” of the opposition DK's MEPs are both located in an abandoned building in a small village named Szegi, boasting a population of a few hundred people.

Cover photo: Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony, Benedek Javor, and ex-PM Gordon Bajnai (Photo: MTI/Zoltan Mathe)