nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200411-152518-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200411s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200411-152518-0 doi eng 342 23 Győry, Csaba Author aut Fighting Fake News or Fighting Inconvenient Truths? - On the Amended Hungarian Crime of Scaremongering Győry, Csaba Verfassungsblog 2020-04-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the Hungarian Parliament amended the Criminal Code: it created the new crime of “obstructing epidemic prevention” and amended the already existing crime of scaremongering (rémhírterjesztés). The old version did have some shortcomings but the now adopted modification addresses none of the previously existing problems and makes the crime more susceptible to abuse by the authorities. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus Fake News Rule of Law Viktor Orbán Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/fighting-fake-news-or-fighting-inconvenient-truths/ raw object