Giorgia Meloni AI Photo: Italy PM Reacts After Deepfake Image Surfaces Online

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reacted aggressively to her deepfake images generated through artificial intelligence (AI) and circulated online to allegedly manipulate her character. Meloni shared her concern on the social media platform X, saying, "fake photos" of her were circulating online by "some zealous opponent".

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni shared a screen grab of a social media handler named Roberto of sharing her "fake photo generated with AI" in which she was seen sitting on a bed wearing - never actually wore this outfit of silk lingerie or satin lace-trimmed nightgown, which has circulated online. It looked real enough to fool people at a glance, but it wasn't.

Girano in questi giorni diverse mie foto false, generate con l’intelligenza artificiale e spacciate per vere da qualche solerte oppositore.

Devo riconoscere che chi le ha realizzate, almeno nel caso in allegato, mi ha anche migliorata parecchio. Ma resta il fatto che, pur di… pic.twitter.com/or44qru2qj

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) May 5, 2026

The screen grab of a post which has circulated Meloni's deepfake photo with a caption saying, "For a prime minister to present herself in this condition is truly shameful, unworthy of the institutional role she holds. But she doesn't know what shame is."

Meloni said, "I must admit that whoever created them, at least in the attached case, has also improved me quite a bit. But the fact remains that, just to attack and invent falsehoods, nowadays anything at all is used."

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Italy PM Meloni said to attack and spread falsehoods against her, "anything at all is used." She pointed out that "Deepfakes are a dangerous tool". She said being a public figure, she can defence her self on the AI-generated images, but the common people cannot do so and become victims of false posts on social media.

Meloni requests netizens to "verify" anything before "believing" and forwarding further. "Because today it happens to me, tomorrow it can happen to anyone," she wrote on X.