an important source of income for some of the serbian misinformation websites, particularly mainstream media companies, is the state budget. state funding is a key source of cash for media outlets in other countries, too, particularly hungary. several cases of misinformation websites doing crowdfunding and one website asking for tax designations were also identified in romania. "there are also in hungary cases of misinformation websites trying to raise funds, not successfully though, through crowdfunding and sales of goods and services."