Lorant Gyori

A sociologist and political analyst, with a masters in social sciences from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he is currently working as a geopolitical analyst for the Political Capital think-tank on issues such as Russian soft power, disinformation, and populism in Europe

Politics

Small Orwellian World of Hungary: New Mass-Surveillance Powers of Viktor Orbán

BY Lorant Gyori AND Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom / December 15, 2018

While the media focuse on the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare” against the Western democracies or the Chinese social credit system controlling people’s everyday life through mass-surveillance, the illiberal state of Viktor Orbán is also doing its fair share to exercise information control via new digital powers.