No) Boundaries for Brainwashing? Informational Autocratization and its Cures in Serbia and Hungary
No) Boundaries for Brainwashing? Informational Autocratization and its Cures in Serbia and Hungary

Author(s): Péter Krekó
Subject(s): Politics, Civil Society, Governance, Public Administration, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Viktor Orbán; dictatorship; informational autocratization; state-sponsored disinformation; media centralization in Hungary; Serbia–Hungary political alignment; electoral autocracies; EU accession
Summary/Abstract: Given the increasingly intimate relationship between Hungary and Serbia, Hungary’s President Victor Orbán’s model can be increasingly attractive for Serbia on its own ambivalent path towards joining EU and NATO. Despite the fact that Hungary, unlike Serbia, is already their member, media concentration and massive state-sponsored disinformation and conspiracy theorizing is on a less developed stage in the Serbian regime. At the same time, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić regards Orbán as a role model in many senses. Orbán’s role as a “teacher” of spin dictatorship can contribute to further deterioration of the quality and factuality of the information space in Serbia – if there are no efficient countermeasures from the EU and civil society actors.

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