Did Marton Gulyas admit in a social media video clip that he is paid by George Soros to help oust the Hungarian government? No, that's not true: the quote in the video was taken out of context. In the full video from which the clip was taken Gulyas is making almost the opposite argument, saying that while he may have received some indirect funding, none of it affects his editorial decisions.
The claim appeared in a video on Tiktok(archived here) where it was published by Kristof Trombitas on 31.03.2023. under the title "gulyás marcit is soros pénzeli a kormány ellen, nahát! It opened:
Did you hear that Marci Gulyas was busted with the lie of independence and objectivity?
This is what the video looked like on TikTok:
@trombitaskristof 🥹 gulyás marcit is soros pénzeli a kormány ellen, nahát! #hungary #magyarorszag #baloldal #dollárbaloldal #dollármédia #gulyásmarci #partizán ♬ Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage
The original source of the quote is an almost 8 hour long livestreamed video in which Marton Gulyas answered questions of his channel's followers. The full quote, which appears about 1 hour and 28 minutes in, says:
"We didn't receive anything from him [Soros] directly, but maybe we received money from OSI in a consortium partially financed by OSI too, yes, probably George Soros is somewhere there at the end of the line, I don't deny it. [...] Here all the decisions about content are made by the staff, it's not possible to say that I'll give you 50 million HUF, please say that climate change is not that important or ask this or that from this or that person. We don't do that."
