Biography

Szilárd Teczár is an editor and journalist at Lakmusz, a Hungarian fact-checking site and a member of the Hungarian Digital Media Observatory’s anti-disinformation hub. He joined Lakmusz in October 2022 and took on his current editorial role in April 2024. Previously, he spent 10 years as a staff writer for the weekly political-cultural magazine Magyar Narancs. From October 2023 to March 2024, Szilárd was a research fellow at the Academy of International Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia, where he conducted a case study on the EU’s access to documents legislation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in communication and media studies.

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