In its latest effort to antagonize Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government for opposing its globalist agenda, the Biden administration has opened a new front in its propaganda and disinformation war against Hungary, launching a new Hungarian-language, opposition media organization backed by Soros and other liberal mega-donors.
The U.S. government, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other left-liberal, internationalist organizations have joined forces to bring Internews, a media portal that claims to “champion a strong independent media sector,” to Hungarian eyes and ears, the online news portal PestiSrácok reports.
The media organization, which on its website states that its primary goal is to resist “powerful interests seeking to manipulate, isolate, or control the press,” says it employs 20,000 journalists worldwide and boasts operations throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, and Armenia.
The news portal’s list of donors shines a bright light on its political orientation. Its financial backers include the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Rockefeller Foundation, Freedom House, which is financed by the U.S. government, as well as liberal Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook and Google
This latest attempt by U.S organizations to influence Hungarian public life comes five years after the U.S. State Department planned to launch a $700,000 grant program to support “independent Hungarian media in the countryside.” Following Budapest’s accusations that the U.S. government was interfering in Hungary’s domestic affairs, the program was later canceled under President Donald Trump’s newly appointed State Department leadership, which went on to maintain excellent relations with the Hungarians.
However, now, with the ‘democracy-exporting’ Democrats back in power, Washington has resumed its meddling in Hungary’s internal affairs.
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Embassy in Budapest released a diplomatically hostile video that listed prominent Hungarian politicians and media figures who have made comments critical of the Biden administration’s policies and actions related to the Russo-Ukraine War, smearing them as “anti-Western” and “anti-American.”
In September, Péter Márki-Zay, mayor of Hódmezővásárhely and former prime minister candidate for the Hungarian opposition, caused a stir when he divulged that he had received a large sum of money for his campaign from the U.S. foundation Action for Democracy.
