Conclusion
Family-related prosocial values can open new horizons in the fight against misinformation in Eastern Europe. The present intervention is an example of leveraging family values to motivate people to use their cognitive capacities while consuming news in a context where mainstream media is a vector of seriously problematic news content. In the region, the Hungarian government is not the only one using public televisions, radios, and local news to regularly disseminate news with ambiguous content—more vigilance about news veracity could prove a brake in the slide back from democracy.