Political Capital

Initial optimism about social media has turned into an open expression of growing political, ethical, legal and economic concerns about tech companies.

2021-09-22

Beyond Dystopian Visions: Social Media for the Public Good

Budapest Forum panel summary

2020-10-09

Visualising Influence

Information bubbles and ideological proximities on Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Facebook

2019-04-10

Russian sharp power in CEE

Political Capital partnered up with Czech and Slovak experts to gain a better understanding of Russian soft and sharp power in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

2015-10-21

Measuring Political Violence

This page presents the results of a two-years-long research project, which focused on the attitudes towards political violence in online and offline context.

2013-11-13

New opposition movements in Hungary

There has been a proliferation of ‘new’ opposition movements before and after the 2010 elections. They vary in size, ideology, form, structure and their relationship with party politics.

2013-11-12

Apolitikus politika? – Új ellenzéki mozgalmak és pártok a Facebookon és azon túl

A rendezvény az új ellenzéki mozgalmak online szimpatizánsainak (Facebook-követőinek) motivációit és attitűdjeit vizsgáló kutatás eredményeit mutatja be egy saját kutatás alapján.

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.

2012-02-07

Not your typical angry young men

Jobbik Facebook fans young, educated, eurosceptic, pessimistic & prejudiced.

2012-02-01

Populism in Europe: Hungary

Demos and the Political Capital Institute released the first ever study of the Jobbik party’s Facebook fans, based on over 2,000 survey responses.

Social Media Research

Why State-Sponsored Disinformation Can Fail?

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

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

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

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

A Houdini-hirdetések - Hogyan csúsznak át a politikai hirdetések a Google és a Meta szűrőrendszerein?

The government dominated social media advertising in Hungary again in 2025, with a ratio of 87:13

Spread the word in the comments, please!

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

Methodological Toolkit

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

Pro-government political advertisements are in record heights in Hungary, promoting hostile narratives against the West

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

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

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

The Kremlin’s troll network never sleeps

“Online trolls” are alive and well in the V4

The voice of the Kremlin dominated Hungarian social media until the outbreak of the war against Ukraine

Evolving digital environments and their effects on citizens’ welfare in the EU and Hungary