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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A Milan court has ruled that journalist Giulia Cortese must pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni €5,000 for mocking her height on social media.

In October 2021, Meloni said she would pursue legal action against Cortese for posting an edited image depicting the Italian PM in front of a framed photograph of late fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

“It has been a very stressful period which lasted three years,” Cortese told POLITICO, saying that she has been subject to insults — some of which are explicitly sexist — and threats against herself and her young daughter from Meloni’s supporters.

In October last year, a Rome court fined anti-mafia reporter Roberto Saviano €1,000 after he insulted Meloni’s attitude toward migrants on a television show.

Cortese accused Meloni of trying to silence critical journalistic voices, “a bit like [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orbán, who by her own admission inspires her,” she said.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, said in June it is monitoring “negative trends” in Italy’s media landscape, though the official report has since been delayed.


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