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Disinformation is not always ideologically motivated. On the contrary, most fake news websites serve primarily to make money. The disinformation economy relies heavily on Facebook and Google Ads, a report on five eastern European countries shows.

The greatest casualty of the coronavirus crisis in Hungary has been human dignity, writes Anna Lengyel. And as long as the Orbán system remains in place, this crisis will prevail long after the virus is gone.

The coronavirus has revealed how fragile our freedoms are and just how little it takes to lose them. Both authorities and citizens have been complicit in turning the Covid-19 quandary into a manifestation of authoritarianism and social fragmentation, writes Serbian historian Dubravka Stojanovic. Instead of herd immunity, we got herd democracy.

European countries are set to invest up to 2.82 billion euro per year until 2100 to avoid losing as much as 1.27 trillion euro due to climate-driven coastal flood damage, a new analysis by the EU Joint Research Center shows.

Physical attacks on journalists and threats to media freedom are on the rise, says the latest report of the partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and the safety of journalists.

Those confined and working from home have more time to watch, listen and read. Music services should benefit from this, but the data suggests the opposite.