Meloni asks for compensation of 100,000 euros for deepfake porn videos

Compensation of 100,000 euros is claimed by the Italian Prime Minister for a video porn created with Artificial Intelligence, as it became known today Wednesday (20.03.24). Meloni asks for the sum of 100,000 euros for digitally made pornographic content that supposedly depicts the Prime Minister of Italy. Italian authorities are investigating a 40-year-old, who is allegedly the creator of the video and his 73-year-old father. As police announced, he managed to track down the perpetrators from the phone tracks used to post the video. The two men are accused of slanderous libel, while, under Italian law, some defamation cases may result in a prison sentence. According to the indictment, the videos were posted on an American pornographic website, on which they were shown “million times”, over several months. ‘Symbolic amount’ According to the BBC, the Italian Prime Minister is expected to testify before the court in the city of Sasari, Sardinia, in the summer. Meloni’s legal team said that if her claim for compensation thrives, the money will be given to a fund to support women who have fallen victim to gender violence. As she said, Meloni’s lawyer, Maria Julia Marongiou, the amount is “symbolic” and the claim for compensation aims to “send a message to women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power, so that they are not afraid to press charges.” It is noted that the controversial deep-fake videos date before Meloni’s appointment as Prime Minister in 2022.