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Mark Little

@marklittle.bsky.social
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Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪

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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The greatest thing about promoting a book is the unexpected turn a conversation can take. You offer up your ideas and the host offers you a perspective that stops you in your tracks. That's the 'burn it to the ground' moment in this chat (about 20 minutes in). open.spotify.com/episode/4rH0...
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'Burn it to the ground' — Mark Little on the future of social media
The Big Tech Show · Episode
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation with Hugh Linehan about The Last Good Day on the Internet open.spotify.com/episode/0PxK...
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Can we escape the algorithm? Mark Little is still optimistic
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · Episode
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.
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Martin Nutty @nuttyinnyc.com · 25/09/2026
This is a sad, and I believe true, indictment of the Silicon Valley #SocialMedia giants From Mark Little’s excellent new book: The Last Good Day on the Internet Well worth your time should you want to understand the toxic impact of technology on civil society #BookSky @marklittle.bsky.social
The lessons I learned at Twitter are not universal truths. But there is the same controlling impulse within every American mega-corporation that has come to dominate the open internet. They would rather watch their platforms burn with rage and anger than surrender control to the communities trapped inside their walled gardens.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“If OpenAI and Anthropic really want to help advance science, there is one obvious way they can do so: They can spend a tiny fraction of their vast fortunes to fund the kind of humble but essential research that’s increasingly starved for resources.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Opinion | Why A.I. Is Dangerous for Science (Gift Article)
Beware the flashy but unproven A.I.-powered advances.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eoghan is a treasured member of our Storyful family. Never has any family neeeded our support as much as Eoghan's. gofund.me/efee8afbf
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why this time it's different. Honoured to be featured on one of my favourite podcasts talking about an unprecedented moment in history! open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
open.spotify.com
Reclaiming Human Connection in the Age of AI
Intelligence Squared · Chapter · 7m
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new book about the future has been shaped by so many conversations in the present. One of those chats has been with Brendan O’Connor on his RTÉ show. So it was a particular thrill to dive into the Last Good Day on the Internet with Brendan over the weekend. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Mark Little - We can take back our power over AI
Mark Little, tech entrepreneur and journalist, has written a new book 'The Last Good Day on the Internet' in which he charts the initial innocence of the internet and its 'shared playground' feel to t...
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When I founded Storyful, I sat down with @patrickfreyne.bsky.social to talk about my hopes for democratic technology. Many years later, we sat down again to chat about my book, The Last Good Day on the Internet. A welcome moment for reflection on what went wrong and what we can make right:
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said." www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you to my wonderful friend Miriam O'Callaghan for launching my new book The Last Good Day on the Internet with such passion, generosity and style. In the company of the friends, family and personal heroes. Thank you to everyone who made the night so special.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Some users will invariably choose the smoothness of these simulated relationships over the meaningful friction of real human connection. But children lack the experience and awareness to fully appreciate the choice they are making.” joinspread.com/post/5014d26...
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Verify to Access: The Original Sin of AI
The Atlantic
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"It was a pantomime act of a huckster’s grudging respect for Irish successes, but grounded in one of the most tenacious parts of his worldview – that if someone is winning, it’s at someone else’s expense, and it won’t be his" www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
irishtimes.com
Beauty queens, corporate titans and Michael Flatley gather for Trump’s meandering address
YMCA, Thriller and The Undertaker’s WWE theme tune soundtrack an odd morning in ambassador’s residence
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“If we confuse ourselves too readily with our machine creations, we not only overestimate them, we also underestimate ourselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
AI Is Already Making Us Less Human
As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“The fight over data centers looks like a conflict over the nature of progress, the shape of the future, and who gets to determine the terms by which citizens submit to the visions of technologists and their financiers” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...
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Opinion | Americans Hate Data Centers. Why? (Gift Article)
Three fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“What issue or preoccupation has surprised you most from people in your focus groups this year? “Data centers and Jeffrey Epstein.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | ‘Trump Voters Are Finally Starting to Sour on Him’ (Gift Article)
Democrats want fighters. A former Republican has ideas.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“The future itself is largely opaque. And if this feels true now, as we sit in the foothills of the singularity, try to picture the epistemic vertigo we will experience once the AI revolution really gets going.” www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/most-quest...
conspicuouscognition.com
Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI
Why the AI revolution is a golden age for polymaths, philosophers, and moderate epistemic despair
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the best summaries of the looming AI debt crisis I’ve read www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Debt Binge Is Endangering the Economy (Gift Article)
The A.I.-fueled debt bubble will likely result in a painful downturn.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"What has come to be expected of millions upon millions of Mumbaikars, no matter how bad it gets, is resilience. But that resilience is coming up against hard limits of survivability." www.equator.org/articles/cit...
equator.org
City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“A record 29 percent of all new cars sold around the world this year are expected to be powered by electricity … a sharp increase from just 4 percent in 2020” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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E.V. Sales Are Rising After the Gulf Oil Shock. Here’s Where. (Gift Article)
As global fuel prices surge, electric vehicle adoption is breaking records around the world. These charts tell the story.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The rapid growth of prediction markets, and their plans to prey on elections, are direct threats to undermining trust in electoral outcomes" joinspread.com/post/2df9a83...
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Verify to Access: Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms
WIRED
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“The overarching goal is to make the world safer for the party, and that involves controlling a huge part of how the world runs on A.I.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/w...
nytimes.com
China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I. (Gift Article)
China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is beautiful! ordinaryabundance.com?utm_source=n...
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The future should indeed be for everyone. But it cannot be built around billions of private assistants serving private ends. It will require AI that serves ... a public willing to build the future" techpolicy.press/no-zuckerber...
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No Zuckerberg, The Future is Not Just For Individuals
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of AI promises to empower everyone. But it mistakes personal optimization for a shared society, writes Petter Bae Brandtzaeg.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Human creativity is surging but creative industries are struggling. How do we square that circle? Check out this great conversation for some ideas. open.spotify.com/episode/3Kbn...
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The price of creativity
TED Radio Hour · Episode
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“The lesson that this era seems to have imparted is that all the hard work that you’ve put forth, is meaningless. What will bring you meaning? Money. Lots of money.” I find myself relying on Kyla Scanlon more and more in these days of angst and acceleration. open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/h...
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How to Get Rich in America
on wealth vs labor and ownership vs effort
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"For each thing Zuckerberg outlines as a possibility, the presumed outcome is some kind of accomplishment. The possibility of pleasure, of experience, of self-knowledge or self-expression are missing from this vision." joinspread.com/post/ca5d5e4...
joinspread.com
Verify to Access: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
The Verge
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone.” joinspread.com/post/0bc0ec7...
joinspread.com
Verify to Access: One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
The Nation
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Humor makes people feel less stupid, and no one wants to feel dumb" A practical lesson the power of empathy. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
cjr.org
Dave Jorgenson: Defusing misinformation through humor.
Dave Jorgenson, cofounder of Local News International, on the post-Post life.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is for everyone. So said Tim Berners-Lee of the open web in a live tweet from the opening of the London Olympics in 2012. What to make of this new treatise on superintelligence from Mark Zuckerberg? Let's start with the obvious: he's no Tim Berners Lee. www.meta.com/thefutureisf...
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The Future is for Everyone
Read Mark Zuckerberg’s piece on our values for building superintelligence for everyone.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Search as we thought we knew it feels broken, now that they’ve gone and changed the formula. But maybe all this time it’s been rounding into its final form, just as the elders foresaw" www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...
theringer.com
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It
For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've always wanted to know how long it takes to record an audio book. The answer is almost a tub of honey - given the strain on my elderly vocal chords. But what a feeling to read those last words! The Last Good Day on the Internet, coming to you in September. Pre-order: linktr.ee/TheLastGoodD...
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“It is as if all the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess, in one chaotic weekend.” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Liz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disaster
All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“Influencers today are a bit like plastic surgeons, or plumbers: On a societal level, many people sure seem to like what they do—they just don’t necessarily want to be right next to them while they’re doing it.” joinspread.com/post/4694a45...
joinspread.com
Verify to Access: The Extras Are Tired
The Atlantic
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Spend enough time in Beijing and Washington these days and the rivalry looks less like a clash of competing systems than like a race between small oligarchic groups—tight circles of men with immense power over everyone else’s future." joinspread.com/post/559b2b0...
joinspread.com
Verify to Access: The Future, Made in China
The New Yorker
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"If you have been reading about the latest AI advances in (or on) maths, this is essential reading. And you don't need to be a mathematician to feel deeply moved by it." kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-n...
kirwinhampshire.substack.com
The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“If you want to spot AI writing, look for bland, pretentious prose lavished with Latinate words—at least for now. With every update, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.” economist.com/culture/2026...
economist.com
How to spot AI writing
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“To see ourselves clearly, we don’t use mirrors. We use relationships.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality (Gift Article)
Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We know what we fear A.I. will do to us. But what do we hope it will do for us? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
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Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands
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Cormac Kinsella @cormackinsella.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
SPECIAL @writingandideas.bsky.social EVENT KLAXON! @wikipedia.org founder @jimmywales.bsky.social in conversation with @marklittle.bsky.social - Thurs 4th June 7pm - Royal Irish Academy of Music, Westland Row - tickets here sl1nk.com/z6xrbfu
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The skill I value most is the ability to describe the future in a way that offers people a tangible sense of their own agency. That’s why I’ve written this book, a personal journey through the rise and fall and rebirth of the human internet. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/TheLastGoodD...
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“Thirty minutes into this trip through his career, Mr. Musk said the goal of Neuralink, his start-up that aims to implant computer chips in people’s heads, is “A.I. safety.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"Welcome to the Technological Republic" A piece of AI-generated agit-prop for the ages. youtu.be/hstZm7fQ-nI
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Ari K - HONEST PALANTIR MANIFESTO
YouTube video by dalu
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Doom and gloom messaging was highly effective for stimulating climate change information sharing, like posting on the internet or social media .. but the absolute worst for motivating action and among the worst for changing climate change beliefs" www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-best-w...
powerofusnewsletter.com
The best way to frame climate change communications
Lessons from one of the largest experiments on climate change behavior + a new initiative from MythBusters' Jamie Hyneman
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“The feed moves at the speed of humor. War does not. And when every crisis arrives as content, the real danger is not that people laugh but that they no longer know what they are looking at.” www.wired.com/story/war-me...
wired.com
War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content
The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Trump seems to thrive at being in the cockpit of history because it grants him omnipresence. My sense is that omnipresence is more important to him than omnipotence." historyneverended.substack.com/p/jesus-of-m...
historyneverended.substack.com
"Jesus of Mar-a-Lago", and the questions it raises for the media.
Why the press should speak out about more about the president's mental state.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New study found approximately 35 percent of all new websites are either AI-generated or AI-assisted. The same study also found that online writing is “increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful.” www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
wired.com
AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“In a system where synthetic content moves faster than it can be verified, the only real defense may be behavioral: hesitation. A pause before the repost. A few minutes of scrutiny in a system designed to reward none.” www.wired.com/story/how-th...
wired.com
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.
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