The Ibiza affair, which led to the collapse of the governing coalition between the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in 2019, not only cost long-time FPÖ leader and former vice chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache his job. Richard Schmitt, online editor of the highly influential Kronen Zeitung, was also forced to leave his post. Under his aegis, the FPÖ and the Kronen Zeitung had apparently been pushing each other’s interests for years on social media.