Hedging Bets with Disinformation - Visegrad Insight
Hedging Bets with Disinformation 28 December 2020 During the spring, five mainly harmful and conspiratorial COVID-19 narratives were present across the Visegrad countries, with an additional one prevalent only in Hungary. While in Czechia and Slovakia, it was mainly fringe, far-right actors as well as fake news and disinformation platforms that spread the stories, ruling parties in Hungary and Poland and their supporters in the mainstream media also played a key – and sometimes even major – role. Whether on more reliable or disinformation mediums, the coronavirus issue was underrepresente...
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