Despite ban, Fidesz still freely advertises on Facebook via its Digital Civic Circles – Telex

Fidesz’ Digital Civic Circles (Digitális Polgári Körök or DPKs) are running more than 200 ads on Facebook, according to a brief analysis by Political Capital shared on Facebook. Fidesz is thus continuing its campaign to recruit and increase its voter database even after the official ban on political advertising has taken effect. According to Political Capital, by Tuesday morning, the DPKs had run 260 ads encouraging Internet users to join, but, some of these ads expired at noon on October 28. However, in the afternoon, they launched a new wave, with 230 ads running simultaneously. They make no secret of the fact that this is a political movement: the shared images feature Fidesz influencers and opinion leaders (many of the images were taken at a campaign event, the so-called Peace March), but there is also one showing Minister of Defence Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky. According to the policy research institute, the goal of the campaign is not only to expand DPK membership, as they also encourage target audiences to provide offline data: they ask for email addresses, full names, cities and zip codes, and phone numbers. According to Political Capital, this is how Fidesz wants to improve the database which constitutes the
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