{"id":60086,"date":"2026-05-06T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/60086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:18:15","slug":"italian-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-shares-risque-image-to-fight-online-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/60086\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Shares Risqu\u00e9 Image To Fight Online Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Updated Wed, May 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM UTC\"ARMENIA-EUROPE-EPC-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-SUMMIT<\/p>\n

ARMENIA-EUROPE-EPC-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-SUMMIT \u00a9(Photo by Ludovic MARIN \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slammed \u201cfake photos\u201d of her by posting an apparently fake lingerie photo of herself online.<\/p>\n

Meloni published the image on her social media<\/a> Tuesday. The image appeared to show the prime minister in scanty underclothes. Meloni paired her post with a screenshot of a social media user who had allegedly shared the image and declared her appearance \u201cshameful and unworthy of the institutional role she holds,\u201d according to<\/a> a translation from Euronews.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral fake photos of me \u2014 generated using artificial intelligence and passed off as real by some overzealous opponent \u2014 are currently circulating,\u201d Meloni wrote on X, according to a translation viewed by the Daily Caller. \u201cI must admit that whomever created them \u2014 at least in the case attached here \u2014 actually improved my appearance quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meloni told followers, \u201cDeepfakes are a dangerous tool, as they have the power to deceive, manipulate and target anyone. I am able to defend myself. Many others are not.\u201d (RELATED: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Flooded Her Nation With Migrants When No One Was Looking)<\/a><\/p>\n

People responding to her Facebook post<\/a> reportedly pressed her to bring the matter to law enforcement, though it remained unclear whether she would do so, The Associated Press (AP) reported<\/a>. A February church-state scandal involving a Roman cherub bearing an apparent likeness<\/a> to the prime minister was an episode she brushed off at the time with a laughing emoji, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Meloni filed an over-$117,000 lawsuit<\/a> in 2024 against two men accused of producing fabricated videos of her that ended up on an American pornographic site, according to Euronews. Her government has pushed through legislation making deepfakes that inflict \u201cunjust harm\u201d a crime.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller has reached out to Prime Minister Meloni\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Wed, May 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM UTC ARMENIA-EUROPE-EPC-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY-SUMMIT \u00a9(Photo by Ludovic MARIN \/ AFP via Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[552,21706,35906,273,5314,1087],"class_list":{"0":"post-60086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-giorgia-meloni","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-euronews","10":"tag-fake-photos","11":"tag-giorgia-meloni","12":"tag-italian-prime-minister","13":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116529955021869029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}