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Italy has one of the highest rates of libel suits against the media in Europe, and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is proving journalist associations right.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I need to say it:

Did she check the control singer? If the control doesn't say she's a fascist, but the other one does, then it's not a placebo but her actually being a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

She needs to have character witnesses in her trial, maybe somebody from her party to testify that she doesn't associate with outspoken fascists and defenders of fascists.

She seems like a good choice!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, she campaigned on being a fascist and made a number of racist claims. But after she was elected she toned it down and even said there was no room for classic fascism in Italy.

So, really, no one should like her.

[–] girlfreddy 36 points 1 year ago

Whinging fascists getting their underwesr tied in a knot because someone calls them fascists has to be thee stupidest thing ever.

Do the crime, do the time.

If you don't want to be named for what you are then change yourself.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like a snowflake to me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Italy has one of the highest rates of libel suits against the media in Europe, and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is proving journalist associations right.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is reportedly suing the lead singer of rock band Placebo after he called her a "fascist, racist" at a gig last month.

Speaking in front of around 5,000 fans on stage at the Sonic Park festival in Turin, Brian Molko called the prime minister a "piece of shit" and described her as "fascist, racist".

This is not the first time Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, has filed a defamation lawsuit.

Domani alleged Meloni had tried to help an MP from her own party win a government contract to procure face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Under Italy’s criminal code, anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army, faces punishment of a fine of between €1,000 to €5,000.


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There have been cases like this in the past where the person suing has lost, effectively proving the claims true. I don't have much faith in the courts in Italy to deliver such a verdict but it would be funny.