Following Meloni’s announcement during the press conference after the Council of Ministers meeting, the social media accounts of the main political figures, on both the right and the left, have been ‘running riot’, as the Prime Minister had hoped, in an attempt to communicate their political stance, riding the wave of the latest trend

The general has seen his popularity drop for the first time in the polls, and his Instagram figures are no longer what they used to be. This setback also affects his alter ego, ‘Robertus Vannaccius’ – a page from which AI-generated content is posted, in which the FnV leader is depicted, for example, as a Roman emperor.

Parliament has given final approval to the bill introducing a digital majority, a reform championed by President Emmanuel Macron to combat the ‘Wild West’ of social media