Facebook Restricts PM Orbán’s Content Weeks Ahead of Hungarian Election

Facebook has begun restricting content from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just weeks ahead of the high-stakes parliamentary election scheduled for 12 April. According to a post on X by right-wing political commentator Mario Nawfal, the move followed a call by a member of the opposition Tisza party, Dóra Dávid—a former employee of Meta—who urged supporters to mass-report Orbán’s posts. Nawfal also raises questions about the online performance of Tisza leader Péter Magyar, whose engagement figures are described as disproportionately high compared to those of global political figures, despite Hungary’s relatively small and linguistically limited user base. It further alleges that Magyar has used a personal ‘professional mode’ profile rather than an official political page, potentially circumventing Meta’s established rules governing political content. According to Nawfal, there are also concerns about the neutrality of Meta’s content moderation practices, as a regional official has publicly expressed positions aligned with mainstream European narratives, including pro-Ukraine messaging and content critical of the Hungarian government. Nawfal’s post was shared by Political Director of the Hungarian Prime Minister Balázs Orbán. According to another X post by Irish economist Philip Pilkington, the Meta official involved in moderating the content of Prime Minister Orbán is Oskar Braszczyński
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