158 result(s) for fake news in Current Affairs
Index Chief Editor Resigns
- 17 May 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Chief editor of Index Gergely Dudás will resign from May 31, the news website has announced. He will be replaced by Attila Tóth-Szenesi the former head of the political news division for seven years, Index added.
Momentum Movement Organises Pro-Europe Demonstration In Budapest
- 2 May 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration with the slogan “We belong to Europe”, organised by the Momentum Movement, was held in the capital on Monday evening, on the 13th anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession. Momentum Movement leader András Fekete-Győr told the crowd assembled in Heroes’ Square that his party would run in the 2018 general election.
Local Opinion: President Signs Higher Education Act Amendments
- 12 Apr 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
After President Áder ordered the promulgation of the amended Act on Higher Education, political polarisation has reached new levels in the Hungarian press.
Fidesz-KDNP Passes Lex CEU
- 5 Apr 2017 8:20 AM
- current affairs
The National Assembly of Hungary has adopted legislation to effectively rid the country of Central European University, despite a growing domestic and international bloc of opposition to the measures. The bill, proposed last Tuesday and made more stringent with a modification on Monday, would impose unfulfillable requirements on CEU, which could strip it of its Hungarian accreditation.
Report Says Pro-Trump Propaganda Came From Hungary
- 22 Mar 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Far-right British activist and millionaire Jim Dowson has reportedly confirmed that his “Patriotic News Agency” and other networks that spread pro-Trump propaganda have their bases in Hungary and Serbia, according to a Monday report by the U.K.ʼs Guardian.
Index.hu: We Are Not Paid Agents Of Russia, We Do It Out Of Conviction
- 6 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of the best known Russian propaganda pages of Facebook, which is proof that Moscow has assistants on both the far-right and the far-left. What’s more, their reach extends even higher: one active proponents of the cause had been a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry ...
Hungarian Beauty Claims Trump Made A Pass At Her
- 24 Jan 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian celebrity Kata Sarka has joined a list of women who claim Donald Trump made sexual advances toward them while the current president-elect was married.
The alleged pass occurred at the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013. Sarka recently recalled the encounter while a guest on “Kasza Taxi,” a Hungarian talk show in the vein of “Carpool Karaoke.”
French Expats Robbed & Assaulted By Fake Police
- 24 Jan 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Police have captured two Hungarians who posed as policemen in order to rob French students in Budapest on Tuesday night. In the incident on Dob utca in the Seventh District, the pair told five French students that they were police officers and pretended to produce official identification.
Magyar Opinion: Hungary To Take Asylum Seekers Into Custody
- 16 Jan 2017 8:30 AM
- current affairs
A conservative pundit welcomes the government’s plan to take asylum seekers into custody while their applications are processed. Her left-wing counterpart thinks that there is no real terrorist danger that would necessitate such strict regulations.
Index Chief Editor Resigns
- 17 May 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Chief editor of Index Gergely Dudás will resign from May 31, the news website has announced. He will be replaced by Attila Tóth-Szenesi the former head of the political news division for seven years, Index added.
Momentum Movement Organises Pro-Europe Demonstration In Budapest
- 2 May 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration with the slogan “We belong to Europe”, organised by the Momentum Movement, was held in the capital on Monday evening, on the 13th anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession. Momentum Movement leader András Fekete-Győr told the crowd assembled in Heroes’ Square that his party would run in the 2018 general election.
Local Opinion: President Signs Higher Education Act Amendments
- 12 Apr 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
After President Áder ordered the promulgation of the amended Act on Higher Education, political polarisation has reached new levels in the Hungarian press.
Fidesz-KDNP Passes Lex CEU
- 5 Apr 2017 8:20 AM
- current affairs
The National Assembly of Hungary has adopted legislation to effectively rid the country of Central European University, despite a growing domestic and international bloc of opposition to the measures. The bill, proposed last Tuesday and made more stringent with a modification on Monday, would impose unfulfillable requirements on CEU, which could strip it of its Hungarian accreditation.
Report Says Pro-Trump Propaganda Came From Hungary
- 22 Mar 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Far-right British activist and millionaire Jim Dowson has reportedly confirmed that his “Patriotic News Agency” and other networks that spread pro-Trump propaganda have their bases in Hungary and Serbia, according to a Monday report by the U.K.ʼs Guardian.
Index.hu: We Are Not Paid Agents Of Russia, We Do It Out Of Conviction
- 6 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of the best known Russian propaganda pages of Facebook, which is proof that Moscow has assistants on both the far-right and the far-left. What’s more, their reach extends even higher: one active proponents of the cause had been a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry ...
Hungarian Beauty Claims Trump Made A Pass At Her
- 24 Jan 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian celebrity Kata Sarka has joined a list of women who claim Donald Trump made sexual advances toward them while the current president-elect was married.
The alleged pass occurred at the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow in 2013. Sarka recently recalled the encounter while a guest on “Kasza Taxi,” a Hungarian talk show in the vein of “Carpool Karaoke.”
French Expats Robbed & Assaulted By Fake Police
- 24 Jan 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Police have captured two Hungarians who posed as policemen in order to rob French students in Budapest on Tuesday night. In the incident on Dob utca in the Seventh District, the pair told five French students that they were police officers and pretended to produce official identification.
Magyar Opinion: Hungary To Take Asylum Seekers Into Custody
- 16 Jan 2017 8:30 AM
- current affairs
A conservative pundit welcomes the government’s plan to take asylum seekers into custody while their applications are processed. Her left-wing counterpart thinks that there is no real terrorist danger that would necessitate such strict regulations.