A June 4 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) features images of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and shows a man talking about a purported development in Italy.
“Italy’s Prime Minister has announced ‘Family Pride Month’ as a counter to ‘normal’ Pride Month,” reads the video's caption. “Family Pride Month will now celebrate mothers, fathers and the children they raise instead of, you know.”
The post garnered more than 37,000 likes in two days. Other versions of the post were shared on Twitter.
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There is no evidence Meloni has announced a "Famiy Pride Month." Both LGBTQ+ advocates and anti-abortion groups say no such announcement has occurred.
Contrary to the post's claims, there is no announcement of a “Family Pride Month” on Italy's government website or on any of Meloni’s official social media accounts.
Gabriele Magni, a political science professor and founding director of the LGBTQ+ Politics Research Initiative at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, told USA TODAY that Meloni and other Italian politicians have not made such an announcement.
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