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2026-05-26

Vietnam-linked AI clickbait network spreads fake political content in Europe

Analysis
2026-04-24

Political campaigning on social media in the “post-reality” and post-advertisement era

Analysis
2026-04-10

Synthetic Influence - Deepfakes and artificial intelligence in the Hungarian election campaign

Analysis
2026-04-08

Fidesz's political myths have lost their appeal; many believe that Fidesz could rig the election

A brief insight into Political Capital's recent polling results
2025-12-19

The Houdini Ads - How political advertisements slip through Google’s and Meta’s filtering systems

Analysis
2025-01-27

Hungarian CSOs contribute to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law Report

Report
2024-12-12

Disinformation and Conspiracy Beliefs in East-Central Europe HDMO-CEDMO-BROD Survey

Analysis
2024-09-19

Conspiracy beliefs, receptivity to disinformation and factual relativism in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia

A preliminary survey report
2024-09-04

Navigating Disinformation Trends and Civil Society Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Mapping Reports 2023-2024

Study
2024-07-31

Disinformation blitz during the Hungarian EP election campaign

Study
2024-06-28

Uncovering, analyzing, debunking and researching sponsored disinfo - project summary

Summary report
2024-06-27

Methodological Toolkit

Methods, techniques, and tools used for analyzing sponsored disinformation
2024-06-08

Fidesz & Co. flood social media with anti-Western hostile disinformation in Hungary’s election campaign, reaching EU spending records

Social media analysis
2023-12-14

Challenges of Strategic Communication in Hungary

Research summary
2023-11-30

Factual relativism and distrust of news sources among the Hungarian public

Study
2023-11-16

Detekto.hu: A site for children has been launched to help recognize fake news

HDMO
2023-10-09

Hidden Agendas: Fake Profiles on Facebook ahead of Hungary's Upcoming Elections

Social media analysis
2023-09-15

Susceptibility vs. immunity – Disinformation and conspiracy theories in Hungary

Summary
2023-07-12

Unlocking the Potential of Fact-Checking: Bridging the Gap between Demand and Utilization

Research summary
2023-06-19

Pro-Russian propaganda in the mainstream, anti-vaccination on the fringes

Study
2023-04-21

Disinformation wonderland in the Hungarian government-controlled online media: Origo's articles on Putin and Zelensky

Media analysis
2023-04-12

Has the peace fight won? - Weekly analysis of the domestic spread of pro-Kremlin war narratives

Weekly monitoring of pro-Kremlin disinformation on the war against Ukraine
2022-12-05

Half of Fidesz voters believe government did not vote for sanctions

Summary of research regarding attitudes about Russia-Ukraine war
2022-11-11

Hypocritical Anticapitalists - for-profit pseudo-scientific disinformation on the internet

A study by Political Capital
2022-10-28

The Kremlin’s troll network never sleeps

Research summary
2022-08-09

Extremist discourses about Russia's war against Ukraine

Monitoring of Networks of Influence Tactics and Operations in the Region
2022-06-30

The anti-gender and anti-LGBTQI mobilisation in Hungary and Poland

Similar tendencies and significant differences can be observed in Hungary and Poland at the same time.
2022-05-10

Disinformation in the election campaign – Hungary 2022

Final Report – after election day
2022-05-05

“Online trolls” are alive and well in the V4

Research summary
2022-04-01

An assessment of disinformation narratives in the Hungarian election campaign

Initial report
2021-11-09

COVID-9.11: The transformation and anti-West radicalization of the Hungarian antivax movement

Political Capital's study
2021-09-15

Hungary’s Anti-Vax movement: Alive and Kicking

IRI - PC research exploring the evolution of the Hungarian anti-vax movement and their intersection with far-right and pro-Kremlin narratives.
2021-07-21

2020: the year of the anti-vax revolution in Hungary

The research explores the radicalization of the Hungarian anti-vax movement through the far-right and pro-Russian subculture
2021-05-20

Not All Vaccine-Sceptics Are Anti-Vaxxers

V4 Data Reveal a Complex Picture
2021-04-30

Not all vaccine-skeptics are anti-vaxxers

Research report
2020-12-14

Main narratives about COVID-19 in the V4 countries during the first wave of the pandemic

Political Capital's research
2020-12-02

Kremlin campaigns fuelling secessionism and inter-ethnic conflict across Europe

Press release
2020-11-05

A disinformation attack on human life

Political Capital and its partners monitored disinformation narratives concerning the COVID-19 pandemic during the first wave of infections in the V4.
2020-11-02

Voices of Central and Eastern Europe - Hungarian Country Report

Political Capital, in partnership with the Slovak think tank Globsec, analyzed the results of a public opinion poll encompassing Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

2020-10-09

Visualising Influence

Information bubbles and ideological proximities on Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Facebook
2020-08-06

Disinformation after the first wave of the coronavirus in Central Europe

Disinformation narratives and strategies related to the pandemic’s first wave in Hungary and the CEE region
2020-04-16

Coronavirus and disinformation

A policy paper in association with Euronews Hungary
2020-04-08

Quarantine podcasts, Bologna Edition – a discussion with Erik Jones on Italian and EU politics

A podcast about the political and economic situation in Italy, policy responses to the corona crisis, the future of the European integration. Guest: Erik Jones
2020-03-27

"Any future war will have a cyber dimension"

Interview with NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Attila Mesterházy
2019-11-29

Combating fake news in the education system

A summary of research on the occurrence and dangers of fake news in the education system, and possible ways of combating the phenomenon
2019-11-05

The Hungarian government’s disinformation campaign during the 2019 municipal elections

During the October 2019 elections, the government-organised media launched a massive disinformation campaign against the opposition.
2019-04-26

Russian attempts to meddle in the 2019 EP elections

This research project aims to identify the main narratives spread by official Kremlin mouthpieces and local pro-Kremlin media, focusing on how Russia-related issues and EU institutions are depicted
2018-11-27

How to fight disinformation?

Political Capital’s study explains how Russian disinformation works and the security threats it poses.
2018-11-23

Fake news, propaganda and media use of the youth in the Visegrad 4 and the Balkans

Young people try to defend themselves against propaganda, but distrust mainstream media. The latter is, in turn, the main source of young people’s political passivity

2017-12-20

Counter-propaganda does not work

Our interview with Dr. Ylja Yablokov about his upcoming book, entitled Fortress Russia – Conspiracy Theories in Post-Soviet Russia.

2017-05-24

The political effects of migration-related fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories - conference

A joint conference of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Political Capital
2017-05-24

The political effects of migration-related fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories - study

In this study, we analyse the public discourse about international migration. This is a globally relevant topic, the discussion of which is characterised by the use of fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories all over the world.
2017-04-18

Russia, U.S. Elections, and the Fake News Cycle

How to walk the line between awareness and conspiracy theory.
2016-12-19

Study: Rational arguments and ridicule can both reduce belief in conspiracy theories

PsyPost interviewed Peter Kreko about discrediting conspiracy theories
2016-10-13

Changing Conspiracy Beliefs through Rationality and Ridiculing

Despite the extensive knowledge about the harmful effects of having CT beliefs, the reduction of CT beliefs with experimental methods is a relatively neglected topic of scientific investigation.
2014-09-11

Conspiracy theories in Europe: a compilation

This compilation brings together some of the written highlights from our deconspirator project
2014-09-04

The challenge of conspiracy theories – how to enhance critical thinking against the critical thinkers?

Conspiracy theories are extremely helpful for leaders provoking violent conflicts. They simplify the world, victimise the ingroup, diabolise the enemy, and give justification for violence.
2014-08-07

Seven statements about the nature of anti-Semitism in Hungary

In recent years there has been a rise in domestic and international public discourse regarding anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary.
2013-12-20

The Conspiratorial Mindset in an Age of Transition

Conspiracy Theories in France, Hungary and Slovakia – Survey Results
2013-05-06

The empire of conspiracy: the axiomatic role of antisemitism in the ideology of the Hungarian extreme right

An article by Peter Kreko in the Searchlight Magazine
2012-04-10

The conspiracy worldview

Counterpoint, a London based research and advisory group's interview with Peter Kreko, director of Political Capital about contemporary conspiracy theories in Hungary.
2011-05-16

Jobbik needs Jews to run the world

Psychological & political ‘benefit’ of conspiracy theories
2010-12-22

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

A Joint Conference by Political Capital Institute and Central European University.
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