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Written by Furthering on 2025-01-17 at 06:03

We can hear the warning note in this interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary.

Archived NYT link.

"When I walk away from this experience, one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags. The reality is that if you have the ability to overwhelm the media ecosystem with lies, you make the cost of engaging in public debate so high that it becomes an existential one."

https://archive.ph/1lHU8

[#]Hungary #Diplomacy #Democracy #Media #Control #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europe #US

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