Neue Beweise, aufgedeckt von Experten für digitale Forensik, stützen die Schlussfolgerung, dass der Cyberangriff auf das IPI im September als Vergeltung für unsere Arbeit zur Unterstützung unabhängiger Medien in Ungarn durchgeführt wurde. Diese Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass sich die Kampagne gegen die unabhängigen Medien Ungarns ausweitet und auch Angriffe auf zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen umfasst, die […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium in warning the European Union about the chilling impact that the Hungarian ruling party’s proposed Sovereignty Protection Act will have on what remains of the country’s embattled independent media community. Our organisations stress that while media are not named […]

Austrian reporter Franziska Tschinderle was smeared and discredited for five days in a row on Hungary’s most important TV news broadcast simply for doing her job.  The campaign targeting Tschinderle is the subject of a new investigation published today by the German newspaper taz as part of the IPI-led Decoding Disinformation Playbook project. Over the […]

Since September 1, the International Press Institute (IPI) has been battling a targeted and sustained cyberattack. This attack appears to be in retaliation for our advocacy work on behalf of independent media in Hungary, who have faced a wave of similar attacks since this summer. The attack on IPI began with a series of distributed […]