Overview

• Administrators announced the forum’s closure and content deletion, saying they failed to stop “toxic” behavior despite claiming long‑standing cooperation with law enforcement.
• Polizia Postale is receiving denounces from across Italy and is working to identify platform operators and individual authors, with checks on how the images were obtained and shared.
• Complaints were filed by Alessandra Moretti, Alessia Morani, Lia Quartapelle and Valeria Campagna, while images of Giorgia Meloni, Elly Schlein and many other public figures were found on the site.
• There was bipartisan condemnation, including from Senate president Ignazio La Russa, and Minister Eugenia Roccella signaled forthcoming government measures targeting non‑consensual image abuse online.
• Reporting details years of organized archiving, AI‑manipulated images and deepfakes on a platform active since 2005 with hundreds of thousands of users, as some participants now seek removal of their posts and accounts.