Did George and Alex Soros decide to fire the co-editor in chief of Telex.hu, Veronika Munk? No, that's not true: Alex or George Soros are not owners of Telex.hu's company and there is no evidence that they have decision-making power or any connection to the newspaper.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published by David Filep aka "A kopasz oszt" on August 9, 2023, under the caption:
The dollarmedia called Telex is busted again...
This is what the post, translated from Hungarian to English by Lead Stories staff, looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Wed Aug 16 17:38:17 2023 UTC)
Veronika Munk was the founding editor-in-chief of Telex.hu, a leading online newspaper created by journalists who left Index.hu after it was sold to new owners in 2020. Veronika Munk left Telex.hu in April 2023 to work for Dennik N, a Slovak media company. She told kreativ.hu in an interview that "The decision was made - a decision beyond me and the editorial board - that I would no longer be editor-in-chief."
This is the quote the creator of the TikTok video used. The quote is taken out of context, from a question about her becoming a co-editor. The full quote is "I would have liked to continue doing it, I saw that the co-editor-in-chief system serves Telex's interests well, we complement each other well. But the decision was made - a decision beyond me and the editorial board - that I would no longer be editor-in-chief." The four owners who made the decision, none of whom is a Soros, were referred to in a previous question in the interview.
Telex.hu publishes a quarterly transparency report. In their July 10, 2023 edition they announced that the new editor-in-chief, Tamas Nemet, was accepted by the journalists of the paper, 91 out of 94 workers who were in favor of his nomination.
According to the transparency report Van Másik Zrt. is owned by four men: Szabolcs Dull, Márton Kárpáti, András Kárpáti and András Pusztay. The report says that they will keep 25% of the shares of the company and they will give 75% to the journalists of the newspaper to keep political ownership out of the company.
There is no sign of George or Alex Soros among the owners of the company and there is no evidence that the Soros family have any decision-making power there.
