M1 Goes Dark, Airs Apology for Orban-Era Propaganda

Hungary's public broadcaster blacked out its programming to confess to years of state distortion, the latest rupture in Budapest's post-Orban realignment.

A television screen went black in Hungary, and when the picture returned, the confession had already begun. Public broadcaster M1 interrupted its own programming to issue a formal apology for functioning as a propaganda arm under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, marking the most visible rupture yet between the state media apparatus and the government that shaped it. [1]

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