Short answer
Not in writing. From 2015 to 2019, between 31% and 41% of posts on the Fidesz party page mentioned migration each year, against under 4% on Viktor Orbán's page, which drew 41% to 56% of the two Fidesz pages' engagement each year from 2015, mostly with photos and videos with short captions.
What the evidence shows
- The study uses 66,587 posts from the Facebook pages of seven Hungarian parties and two leaders, Viktor Orbán and Ferenc Gyurcsány, from January 2014 to September 2020.
- In the 60 days before four national and European elections, the Fidesz party page drew between 0.87 and 1.00 times its vote share in interactions; smaller parties diverged much more, in both directions.
- Orbán's page drew 25% of the interactions on the two Fidesz pages in 2014 and between 41% and 56% in each year from 2015; Gyurcsány's page followed a similar path within the Democratic Coalition.
- Migration posts drew about the same engagement as other posts on the Fidesz page and about 1.5 times as much on Jobbik's.
Caveats
Migration is flagged from post text only, so content spoken in Orbán's videos is missed, and results allow for a change in CrowdTangle's capture of photo posts in May 2015.