{"id":182203,"date":"2024-09-11T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-is-the-italian-prime-minister-suing-over-deepfake-porn\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T20:00:08","slug":"why-is-the-italian-prime-minister-suing-over-deepfake-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-is-the-italian-prime-minister-suing-over-deepfake-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Italian prime minister suing over deepfake porn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/DR4FjpM7tkE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why is the Italian prime minister suing over deepfake porn?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DR4FjpM7tkE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The right-wing Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is suing a father and his son for allegedly making deepfake pornographic videos of her. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time a powerful international figure has ever taken legal action against deepfake porn &#8211; an increasingly common and disturbing form of abuse. [Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Meloni\u2019s lawyer says she\u2019s suing the men in Sardinia for a \u201csymbolic sum\u201d of \u20ac100,000 to stand up for women\u2019s rights. But the people here don\u2019t seem convinced.<\/p>\n<p>As this rare and historic moment unfolds we dive into the trial in Sardinia, where the murky worlds of politics and morality collide, to find out why Meloni is really taking legal action and what this moment could mean for the hundreds of thousands of deepfake porn victims across the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Reported by Sophie Braybrook<br \/>\nFilmed and edited by Samantha Everett<br \/>\nProduced by Emily Roe<br \/>\nField produced by Raffaele Angius<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is suing a father and his son for allegedly making deepfake pornographic videos of her. It\u2019s the first time a powerful international figure has ever taken legal action against deepfake porn &#8211; an increasingly common and disturbing form of abuse. [Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe] Meloni\u2019s lawyer says she\u2019s suing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[129741,129005,130540],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-182203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-italian","tag-prime","tag-rightwing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why is the Italian prime minister suing over deepfake porn? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why is the Italian prime minister suing over deepfake porn? for free, here on News ISC. 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