http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200411-152518-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/fighting-fake-news-or-fighting-inconvenient-truths/ Fighting Fake News or Fighting Inconvenient Truths? Győry, Csaba eng 2020-04-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Coronavirus Fake News Rule of Law Viktor Orban Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 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.