Mediaset v Fabrizio Corona: 160 million maxi lawsuit on the 'economics of insinuation'
The group is taking Fabrizio Corona to court for the contents of the 'Falsissimo' format. Among the injured parties also Pier Silvio and Marina Berlusconi and some well-known Mediaset faces. A fund against stalking and cyberbullying with possible compensation announced
One hundred and sixty million euros. Mediaset and Mfe - Mediaforeurope have decided to take Fabrizio Corona to court, accusing him of turning insinuation into spectacle and spectacle into income. The subject of the dispute is 'Falsissimo', the format that - according to the television group - would have built a systematic narrative made of lies, personal attacks and defamation for the use and consumption of the digital economy. A case that broke out with the attacks on Alfonso Signorini and then overflowed into accusations against Mediaset.
In the official communiqué, the tone is that of someone who no longer wants to limit himself to denial. The words are heavy: 'unprecedented verbal violence'; 'conscious falsehoods'; 'organised mechanism'. Because the point, they explain from Cologno Monzese, is not the individual content, but the model: attention as currency, to the detriment of the reputation of others.
"The individual injured parties, together with Mediaset and Mfe-Mediaforeurope, have decided to bring civil actions for damages, for a total amount of €160 million, against Fabrizio Corona and the companies traceable to him, for reputational and financial damage. The Group also reserves the right to take action against anyone who, for various reasons, knowingly encourages, amplifies or disseminates such content," reads the Cologno group's statement.
And according to information, the 'injured parties', i.e. those who have suffered damages and who have decided to file, together with Mediaset and Mfe-Mediaforeurope, the civil lawsuit against Fabrizio Corona, are Pier Silvio and Marina Berlusconi, Maria De Filippi, Silvia Toffanin, Gerry Scotti, Ilary Blasi, and Samira Lui.
The day began with Fabrizio Corona announcing, through his lawyer Ivano Chiesa, that he had 'decided to denounce Mediaset for attempted extortion', because 'the company has sent letters to the managers of public premises in recent days, saying that they must monitor the conduct of the guests of the evenings they organise for any offensive behaviour and Corona's name is not written in the letters, but it is clear that reference is made to him'.
