Giorgia Meloni will testify at a court in the Sardinian city of Sassari in a bid to send a message about the problem
Italy’s prime minister is seeking €100,000 (£85,374) in damages after deepfake pornographic videos of her were shared on the internet.
‘Deepfakes’ are images or videos where the face of one person, in this case Giorgia Meloni, is digitally put onto the body of another.
Two men accused of making the videos, a father and son aged 74 and 40, are being investigated.
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‘Deepfakes’ are images or videos where the face of one person, in this case Giorgia Meloni, is digitally put onto the body of another.
The videos in question, which date back to 2022 - before Ms Meloni was appointed prime minister - were posted to a US pornographic website where they were viewed “millions of times” over several months, according to an indictment.
If her claim is successful, Ms Meloni will donate the €100,000 to a fund to support women who have been victims of male violence, her legal team said.
Describing the sum as “symbolic”, Maria Giulia Marongiu, Ms Meloni’s lawyer, said the demand for compensation was meant to “send a message to women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power not to be afraid to press charges.”
US popstar Taylor Swift was perhaps the most high-profile person to be affected by deepfake porn when sexually explicit images of her were shared on social and chatrooms.
The offensive images and the length of time it took to have them removed spawned fury from Swift’s fans and others who have expressed alarm at the “violently misogynist” nature of the pictures.
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