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Właśnie obejrzałem film dokumentalny przygotowany przez direkt36, który przez blisko rok badał działalność biznesową rodziny premiera Orbán Viktor. To naprawdę mocny materiał, który pokazuje, jak od lat 90. budowane było imperium gospodarcze powiązane z władzą na Węgrzech.

💪"The Dynasty" - New documentary of Direkt36 has just reached 2 million views. Thank you so much! If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4SXv…

💪 "The Dynasty" - Le nouveau documentaire de Direkt36 vient d'atteindre les 2 millions de vues. Merci beaucoup ! Si vous ne l'avez pas encore vu, vous pouvez le regarder ici : youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4SXv…

2.6 M views and 1000 new supporters since the publication of "The Dynasty". Thank you! If you also care about journalism that exposes the hidden agendas of power, support Direkt36! direkt36.hu/en/tamogass-mi…

🔥“The Dynasty: How Viktor Orbán’s Business Empire Was Born” by direkt36 is Hungary's most-watched online political content, nearing 3M views. 💰Watch this excerpt on how Orbán’s son-in-law buys up hotels and leads major real estate projects in Budapest.

Orbán is pushing to get his chief-of-staff, Antal Rogán, off the US Global Magnitsky list—his FM Péter Szijjártó meets Marco Rubio today. TVP summarizes how Rogán’s golden visa scheme let poorly vetted Chinese, Russians & Iranians into the EU, based on direkt36’s investigations.

Two women whose suffering reflects the crisis in the Hungarian healthcare system. The mistreatment is common in other hospitals too, and the government is aware of it, but has not taken any meaningful action. direkt36.hu/en/azt-hittek-…

🔥NEW STORY🔥 Once a regime loyalist, Péter Magyar has become Viktor Orbán’s top opposition challenger. @Direkt36 investigates how his views changed while his argumentative personality kept him from advancing in the regime—and what led him to break away. direkt36.hu/en/igy-valt-ki…

Péter Magyar: Inside the rise of Viktor Orbán’s unexpected challenger direkt36.hu/en/igy-valt-ki… via direkt36 #Hungary #politics

“We found a special position in the Hungarian media landscape. We’re not part of the news cycle. We focus all of our resources on investigative projects, reporting on stories that matter for the audience.” Andras Petho co-founder of direkt36 buff.ly/BTrK2Cr

So proud to see direkt36 from Hungary featured when I opened my Nieman Lab newsletter yesterday - and what and a great lesson learned about the how to leverage multimedia as a digital newsroom in a screen heavy society.

‼️Trump allies Ric Grenell & Matt Mowers join the advisory board of Viktor Orbán’s pet company 4iG—a Hungarian IT/telecom/defense giant with major state support and a history of corruption claims. They're expanding fast. Read our earlier direkt36 story👇 direkt36.hu/en/az-orban-re…

💰Viktor Orbán used even Hungary’s EU presidency to enrich his family. Our investigation reveals his government redirected Finnish PM Petteri Orpo and his delegation to Hotel Dorothea—owned by the Orbán family—during last year’s Budapest EU summit so they’d spend money there. 1/2

Even delegations that didn’t pick Orbán’s hotel were redirected there. Finnish PM Petteri Orpo, a critic of Orbán, booked the Ritz-Carlton—but Hungary’s gov’t claimed “overbooking” & moved him to Hotel Dorothea instead. He and his staff ended up generating profit for the Orbáns.

We first reported at direkt36 how the Orbán family profited from Hungary’s EU presidency via their hotel, right after the 2024 EU and EPC summits. The scheme somewhat echoes how foreign delegations in the US booked the Trump Hotel to curry favor. Story: direkt36.hu/en/tiborcz-sza…

🫰💵 We at direkt36 found that Hungary not only made the Finnish PM’s team spend public funds at Orbán’s hotel last year, but is now urging speakers of EU parliaments to book rooms there for a summit this May—keeping the money flowing to the Orbán family. direkt36.hu/en/bar-mashova…

🔎🇫🇮 Our latest investigation was supported by Helsingin Sanomat’s investigative team, who filed public information requests to obtain invoices from the Finnish PM’s visit to Hungary—confirming details of Petteri Orpo's stay at the Orbán family’s hotel. hs.fi/tutkiva/art-20…

🔎NEW INVESTIGATION on direkt36: Viktor Orbán secretly traveled to Riyadh in 2022 to meet Mohammed bin Salman one-on-one. The visit was kept under wraps—at Orbán’s request. What they discussed remains unknown. Could’ve been business. Or Italian soccer... direkt36.hu/en/orbannak-vo…

💥NEW INVESTIGATION: Pro-Orbán propagandist Georg Spöttle has come under scrutiny after one of his close acquaintances failed a background check—triggered by concerns over German-Hungarian propagandist Spöttle’s Russian intelligence connections. direkt36 direkt36.hu/en/fideszes-pr…