"Another lie from Angelucci's newspapers, Italy's most absent MP." Sigfrido Ranucci, via Facebook, attacks the daily newspaper Libero regarding a photo of an alleged kiss between the journalist and Maria Rosaria Boccia. "Today Libero, picked up by Mentana's Open and Franco Bechis, known as 'Fosca', reports on a photo allegedly taken by investigators or secret services, concerning an alleged kiss between me and Maria Rosaria Boccia. It is fake, and the photo they are referring to, which I retrieved from the chat, was clearly created using Artificial Intelligence."

"Just so you understand what you are funding with your public money," he adds, "the editor is Sallusti, who was pardoned from prison, and who requested and obtained, with Fdi, the suspension of Report's summer reruns. The government remains silent on this use of the press. I will speak about all of this on September 25th in Noto and on the 26th in Vittoria, during the show #DiarioDiUnTrapezista."

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Maria Rosaria Boccia's lawyer: 'We will take action against Natalia Potenza and Libero'

"In the interest of my client, Maria Rosaria Boccia, I hereby announce that today we will be taking action before the competent judicial authorities against Ms. Natalia Potenza, the newspaper Libero and journalist Giacomo Amadori, in connection with the statements and content published in today's edition." This was stated in a press release by lawyer Francesco Di Deco, legal representative of Maria Rosaria Boccia. "We categorically contest," the lawyer explains, "the existence and truthfulness of the photograph described in the article, in the terms in which it is represented, and any reconstruction capable of suggesting that my client and Sigfrido Ranucci had meetings or relations of the nature insinuated by the publication. I also clarify that over the past two years, all meetings between Ms. Boccia and Sigfrido Ranucci have always taken place in the presence of other people and never alone. The judicial authority will be asked to ascertain any potential liability arising from the publication and dissemination of such content." "Similar initiatives will be considered against anyone who should pick up and republish the same claims, where the legal conditions apply," concludes lawyer Francesco Di Deco.

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