{"id":13037,"date":"2026-05-05T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/13037\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:21:44","slug":"italys-meloni-denounces-deepfake-photo-as-a-political-attack-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/13037\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROME — ROME (AP) \u2014 Italian<\/a> Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her \u2014 posing in bed, wearing lingerie \u2014 and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her.<\/p>\n

Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be \u201cashamed\u201d of herself.<\/p>\n

Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeepfakes are a dangerous tool because they can deceive, manipulate and target anyone. I can defend myself. Many others cannot,\u201d she warned in her Facebook post.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately clear if Meloni would report the incident to law enforcement, as she was urged to do by people commenting on her post. She acknowledged though that the photo manipulation \u201cactually made me look a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the fact remains that, in order to attack and fabricate lies, people will now use absolutely anything,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that the likeness of Meloni, Italy\u2019s first female premier, has made waves. In February, a minor church-state scandal erupted<\/a> after a cherub bearing a striking appearance to Meloni appeared in a Roman church.<\/p>\n

Then, Meloni made light of the manipulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I definitely don\u2019t look like an angel,\u201d Meloni wrote on social media with a laughing\/crying emoji alongside a photo of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME — ROME (AP) \u2014 Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[240,5,1138,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-13037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-general-news","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}