Meloni Exposes AI Sexualized Deepfake, Urges Users to Verify Before Sharing

Overview

• Italy's prime minister shared a fabricated image that showed her in lingerie and said it was created with artificial intelligence to mislead people.
• She told followers on X to check content before believing or passing it on and called deepfakes a dangerous tool that can trick and harm anyone.
• Meloni noted that she has the reach to defend herself but many victims do not, which leaves people with fewer resources exposed to lasting stigma and abuse.
• She still has a defamation case in progress against a man in Sardinia who is accused of posting pornographic deepfakes of her online two years ago.
• The episode mirrors Germany's Collien Fernandes case, which brought street protests and sped up debate on a law to curb the spread of AI-made sexual media.