Already essentially shut out by a government that critics said has used the COVID-19 pandemic to stifle the press, 28 Hungarian media outlets demanded greater access to hospitals for journalists covering the crisis to report on a surge of cases and deaths. The request wasn’t granted.

The European Union “made a horrible mistake in Europe by underestimating the role of media for upholding democracy,” European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová said, citing the murders of journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in 2017 and Ján Kuciak in Slovakia in 2018. Both probed high-level corruption.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's administration has put in effect a prohibition on using drones to obtain videos of property without permission. The decision comes a short time after investigative news site Atlatszo.hu had showed images of the estate of Hungary's richest man.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has been suspended from the European Parliament’s main centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) grouping

A Hungarian patent lawyer has become the subject in a criminal investigation after making a public interest disclosure regarding a security flaw in the National Intellectual Property Bureau (SZTNH) website.

In January 2014 Hungary’s new whistleblower law came into effect.The Complaints and Public Interest Disclosure Act, passed in October 2013, updated whistleblower law for public and private sector employees.