Origo is a major Hungarian language news website founded in 1998 by telecommunications company MATÁV. In 2018, Origo was the third most visited Hungarian website. Since 2015, Origo has been regularly criticised for its uncritical support of the Fidesz political party and regularly spreading fake news. Some critics describe the website as "state-run propaganda". More information...
In June 2020 the website origo.hu was on the 1,675th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 1,490th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "origo.hu" is the 1,177th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before giantbomb.com and after texasmonthly.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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