several key figures leave After Fidesz's overwhelming victory in the 2010 elections, Spéder's close relationship with several figures close to the party meant that many at Index started fearing increased political influence. This culminated in Péter Uj resigning as editor-in-chief after 11 years in September 2011, later citing the firing of one of Index's employees after an article critical of Viktor Orbán as the cause of his exit. He was replaced by Zsófi Mészáros who has worked at Index since 2000. Several other key figures, such as columnist Árpád Tóta W., journalist Márton Bede, editor Albert Gazda, and László Szily also left Index. In 2013, Péter Uj started a new website, 444.hu, which further catalysed the departure of journalists, including editor-in-chief Zsófi Mészáros, and all but one of the editors (the one exception being Gergely Dudás, who became Index's new editor-in-chief after Mészáros' departure). As a result, Index signed a large number of new journalists. A notable change was the arrival of Szabolcs Panyi and András Dezső, whose long-form investigative journalism was in stark contrast to Index's previous journalism that was based around being the first to react to events. In line with this, a 2014 redesign of Index saw the removal of blogs from its front-page. Since 2017: Simicska and a new foundation In February 2014, Pro-Ráta Holding Zrt, a company close to Lajos Simicska, a businessman often described as a "Fidesz oligarch", but later a fierce enemy of Orbán, signed an option to buy Index from Spéder, unknown to Index's employees. After Simicska fell out with Orbán in 2015. and several businesspeople still allied with Fidesz started showing interest in purchasing Index, Simicska activated the option in 2017 but then immediately gave control to a foundation chaired by Index's lawyer, László Bodolai, thereby ensuring some level of independence for the paper. In his editorial, editor-in-chief Gergely Dudás said that "we are angry but independent", although he announced his resignation soon after, getting replaced by Attila Tóth-Szenesi. After one of Index's important business partners, Indamedia, got acquired in 2018, Tóth-Szenesi published an "independence indicator" separately from the core infrastructure of Index in order to ensure that readers are informed about any potential attacks against the website, and Index have also started a crowdfunding campaign to ensure the company's independence, a move since followed by other Hungarian media companies. In December 2019, Szabolcs Dull became the website's new editor-in-chief. In