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Rightwingers praise free speech at CPAC Hungary – then eject Guardian journalist

Woman in pink speaking on stage with CPAC Hungary behind her
Kari Lake, the former news anchor and Republican nominee in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, speaks at the CPAC Hungary in Budapest. Photograph: Tibor Illyes/EPA

US Republicans and their European allies tore up news headlines and ejected a Guardian journalist from a conference of radical rightwing activists, on the same day that they highlighted the importance of free speech.

Speaking at the second annual meeting in Budapest of the US Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Kari Lake, a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate, said that “truth-tellers and peacemakers” were being destroyed by “fake news”.

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