Exhibition exploring the history of 'fake news' and forgery opens in Budapest

euronews (in English)

The exhibition presents a diverse collection of over 100 artefacts from across Europe, organised into six central themes and presented along a chronological timeline.

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00:00A traveling exhibition exploring the history of fake news and forgery has opened in Budapest.

00:07The interactive collection, put together by the House of European History,

00:11reveals that the concept of fake news has existed for centuries,

00:16from the forging of sacred relics to the invention of conspiracy theories.

00:22We start the exhibition with a practice of antiquity,

00:27which was called the condemnation of memory.

00:30It was a practice by which they tried to erase people from history.

00:35And the exhibition ends in this location in Budapest

00:40with an additional case study added by our host, the Open Society Archives,

00:45which looked at the case of Imre Nagy

00:49and how his name was purged from history until 1989.

00:54The interactive nature of the exhibition allows visitors to become fact-checkers themselves,

00:59with screens which allow them to decide which news to censor or publish.

01:04The collection also explores cases in history where forgery was used for good.

01:09During the Holocaust, for example, thousands of lives were saved by fake identity cards and passports.

01:15The exhibition is open until the 16th of February.

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