Mérce is a leftist online portal and the successor to the popular blog Kettős Mérce, which was founded in 2008 and developed into a news portal in 2017. The portal publishes news and opinion pieces that present society and politics in Hungary as well as international developments from a critical, left-wing perspective. According to the editorial team, Mérce is the only media outlet in Hungary that is exclusively financed by voluntary donations from its readership.