Italian Facebook page where men shared intimate images of partners without consent … – CNN

An Italian Facebook page where thousands of men posted intimate images of their female partners, sisters and unknown women – many of them without their consent, has been closed down following public outrage and multiple complaints to police. Since it was launched in 2019, hundreds of thousands of photos of women were posted on the Facebook group “Mia Moglie” (My Wife) for the purpose of eliciting comments and propositions by the nearly 32,000 mostly male group members. The posts ranged from swinger couples to photos women shared with their partners who then posted them on the site. Many photos were taken during sex acts, and most were published without the consent of the women pictured, according to Italy’s Postal Police, which is responsible for digital law enforcement. More than 2,000 complaints have been filed to Meta and local Italian authorities since Mia Moglie began, according to Italy’s Postal Police, who launched a criminal investigation that led Meta to shut the page down definitively August 20. “All the comments will be filed in our information system,” Barbara Strappato, deputy director of the Roman Postal Police, said Wednesday, announcing its closure. “The crimes range from defamation to the dissemination of intimate material
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