The prime minister of Italy is seeking more than $100,000 in damages in a defamation case against two men who are accused of creating deepfake pornography videos of her and circulating them online, where they racked up millions of views in several months, severalTwo unnamed men, one age 40 and his 73-year-old father, are accused of defamation after investigators say they created pornography videos featuring Meloni by placing her face on someone else's body and then posting them online, the...
Meloni, the plaintiff in the case, said in the complaint she wants to send a message"to all women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power not to be afraid to press charges,"near the end of 2017 when a Reddit moderator created a subreddit with the name and started posting videos that swapped the faces of celebrities onto the bodies in existing pornographic videos.