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About Us
HDMO is the EDMO hub in Hungary, built as a national platform aimed at becoming the reference point for all anti-disinformation stakeholders in the country. HDMO stands for Hungarian Digital Media Observatory.
The HDMO consortium, led by Political Capital, involves six partners Within the consortium, Lakmusz and AFP are doing fact-checks, Political Capital and Mertek Media Monitor are conducting research and writing publications, and Idea Foundation, with the support of AFP, is training teachers and journalists and is responsible for all other media literacy activities. Magyar Hang enables the hub to reach a wider, cross-border, and different type of audience, and to increase HDMO’s impact.
The hub is based on the successful pilot project LAKMUSZ, co-funded by the European Commission in 2022. Lakmusz.hu, the website launched as part of the pilot project, is already established as a fact-checking platform. The project ran as LAKMUSZ-HDMO from the beginning of 2023, and started its new phase as of October 2025.
The hub adheres to the EDMO Guiding Principles described here.
Fact-checks
The most recent articles detecting and debunking the main disinformation narratives, together with additional journalistic content that explore the workings of the disinformation environment from different perspectives published by HDMO's fact-checking media partners Lakmusz, AFP and Magyar Hang.
Unprecedented Flood of Misleading AI War Images Swamps the Internet During Israeli–Iranian Conflict
Modern Technologies Open New Fronts in the Disinformation War Between Iran and Israel
This Video Does Not Show the U.S. Attack on Fordow Nuclear Facility; It Is Footage from Syria Months Earlier
U.S. Adversaries Amplify Disinformation About Los Angeles Protests
Research
The latest analysis from HDMO's research partners Political Capital and Mérték Média Monitor.
The future of the anti-disinformation ecosystem and possible challenges
Report
Patterns of the spread of state disinformation
CONSPIRACY BELIEFS, DISINFORMATION, AND FACTUAL RELATIVISM IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARATIVE SURVEY IN 2024
Media literacy
The latest learning materials and news about media literacy programs through trainings for journalists and teachers, e-learning curricula, other tutorials and tools, and media campaigns to build resilience to online disinformation by AFP and Idea Foundation.
AFP third HDMO fact-checking training marked International Fact-Checking Day in Budapest
Launch of the EDMO Guidelines for Effective Media Literacy Initiative
EDMO GUIDELINES FOR ML INITIATIVES LAUNCH
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