July 19, 2024
Italian journalist fined €5,000 for tweet mocking PM Meloni’s height
ROME: A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 5,000 euros ($5,465) in damages for mocking her in a social media post, the ANSA news agency and other local media reported. Journalist Julia Cortese was also fined €1,200 with a suspended sentence for a Twitter rant, now called X, in October 2021 about Meloni’s height, which was described as “body shaming”. In response to a Reuters article about the verdict, Cortese wrote in X on Thursday: “Italy’s government has a serious problem with freedom of expression and journalistic dissent.” Meloni had taken legal action


