[9][10] Following her firing, previously apolitical Šimkovičová established herself as a star of the far-right media, in particular by posting xenophobic, anti-vax, homophobic and pro-Russian content on Facebook.
[12] In 2018 she was nominated for the Homophobe of the year award by the Institute for Human Rights for regular Facebook posts promoting hate against the LGBT community.
Following the incident, Šimkovičová was fined €1,000 for breaching the code of conduct of the parliament, but refused to resign and served the rest of the term as an independent MP.
[17] In the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Šimkovičová led the list of the Voice of the People party, which received less than 2,000 votes, far below the representation threshold.
[10] Following the forming of a government coalition including SNS, the party chairman Andrej Danko announced Šimkovičová's nomination for the position of Minister of Culture.
Immediately after taking office, she stopped all funding for countering disinformation, while maintaining her Youtube broadcast with the MP Peter Kotlár, which regularly airs far right talking points as well as conspiracy theories.
[21][22] She has also been a subject of public riducule for her open letter to the Czech Minister of Culture, which she published on her Facebook page as it contained numerous grammatical and spelling errors.
[33] In response, another online petition, organized by actors Zuzana Fialová and Richard Stanke, cartoonist Martin Šútovec and writer Michal Hvorecký, gathered over 180,000 signatures again called for sacking of Šimkovičová.
[35] Former ministers of culture across the political spectrum Ladislav Snopko, Milan Kňažko, Rudolf Chmel, Marek Maďarič and Silvia Hroncová published an open letter in support of the demands of the petition.