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Italy’s PM Meloni ‘disgusted’ over porn site allegedly showing
doctored images of her and other high-profile women
By Sophie Tanno and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN
Updated:
12:09 PM EDT, Fri August 29, 2025
Source: CNN
Italian Prime Minister has voiced outrage over a porn site that
allegedly featured doctored images of herself and other high-profile
women, alongside sexist and offensive captions and commentary.
The forum, known as Phica – a name based on a slang term “figa”
for the word “vagina” in Italian – was shut down by its own
managers on Thursday, following a widespread backlash. The site, which
had hundreds of thousands of subscribers at the time of its closure,
blamed users for breaking its rules.
Subscribers of the adult forum allegedly harvested images of women from
social media websites or public sources, before doctoring them and
posting them along with misogynistic descriptions.
As well as Georgia Meloni, the site also allegedly featured images of
her sister Arianna, who is a prominent politician within the Brothers
of Italy party as well as other Italian celebrities and politicians.
“I am disgusted by what happened, and I want to extend my solidarity
and support to all the women who have been offended, insulted, and
violated in their intimacy by the managers of this forum and its
users,” Meloni told Italy’s Corriere della Sera .
She added, “It is disheartening to note that in 2025, there are still
those who consider it normal and legitimate to trample on a woman’s
dignity and target her with sexist and vulgar insults, hiding behind
anonymity or a keyboard.”
In an apparent nod to Italy’s current laws on revenge porn, Meloni
said it has become apparent that “this no longer happens just out of
‘revenge,’ and that protecting our data and our privacy is
increasingly crucial in our times.”
Italy does have a “revenge porn” law in place, passed in 2019, that
makes the “illegal dissemination of sexually explicit images”
punishable by up to six years in prison.
Her sister Arianna, also speaking to Corriere della Sera, blamed what
she described as a “bad habit of a click-through society, where we
intrude on private life, we offend, we peek through keyholes, we ruin
lives, and we belittle the real, important things that women achieve
and conquer with their work day after day.”
Prime Minister Meloni, who from her long-term partner in 2023 after he
was caught making sexist remarks, has previously been vocal on
women’s issues including deepfake pornography and domestic violence.
In 2024, she a father and son accused of creating a deepfake video of
her. Seeking $108,200 (€100,000) in damages in a civil trial, she has
pledged to donate any financial winnings to a state fund assisting
women who are victims of violence. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
The next hearing is scheduled for September.
At the time, Meloni’s lawyer, Maria Giulia Marongiu, told Italian
press outlets that the prime minister was hoping to set an example for
other victims of revenge porn and deepfake porn to speak out against
those who defame them.
Deepfakes are digitally created and altered content that can bear the
exact likeness of a real person. Meanwhile doctored images may include
some original elements but have been edited to distort reality.
The Phica scandal has reignited the feminist debate in Italy and comes
a week after an Italian Facebook page where thousands of men posted
intimate images of their female partners, sisters and unknown women –
many of them without their consent – was closed down following public
outrage and multiple complaints to police.
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