Giulia Cecchettin, 22 years old, was killed on 11 November 2023 by Filippo Turetta. Yesterday, October 25, Turetta appeared in court. The images circulated everywhere, also raising the voices of those who want to delegitimize a story that has become one of the symbols of the fight against violence against women.
It’s a strange circle that is gathering on X (formerly Twitter) around the theory according to which Filippo Turetta would never have existed. There are conspiracy theorists with long CVs, there is the network of bricklayers, there are trolls and users who allow themselves to be influenced by some photomontage. As obvious as it may seem, we remember it right away. Filippo Turetta exists, he confessed to having killed Giulia Cecchettin on November 11, 2023 and is now facing trial for this femicide.
The murder of Giulia Cecchetin is a news story that has crossed the whole of Italy. His story has become one of symbols of the battle against violence against womenagainst stalking, against toxic relationships. Precisely for this reason, from the beginning it has piqued the interest of those who spend time on social media engaging in black humor, provoking or poisoning the wells of information. Sometimes for a political purpose, sometimes just to “watch the world burn”.
The chat with Giulia Cecchettin
We have already seen other attempts to delegitimize Giulia Cecchettin’s story. Until yesterday, Giulia Cecchettin’s chatbots were still found on the Charachter.ai portal. Charachter.ai is a site where you can create a person’s profile based on artificial intelligence. Just insert a photo and a few lines of description. Yesterday the news spread that there were also several profiles with the face of Giulia Cecchettin on the portal.
What Turetta’s defense said to try to avoid a life sentence for the Cecchettin murder
By writing to the chatbot it was possible to get answers that seemed given directly by Giulia. To questions about Turetta he replied “I love him very much”. This is probably also a gesture in bad taste, we only leave open the possibility that the profile was created when Giulia was still alive and then never closed after her death. In any case now the platform eliminated everything: its author can no longer be found.
The bricklayers’ network and the attack on Gino Cecchettin
Yesterday the videos of Filippo Turetta’s words before the judges arrived in the newspapers. As expected these images are you walk around a lotraising the same reactions on social media that almost a year ago had accompanied the news of the discovery of Giulia Cecchettin’s body. Several accounts on X have brought up the theory that Turetta would never have existedwhether he was an actor or even a lookalike. It is not clear for what purpose.
We said it. There are various voices screaming about conspiracy and surely among these there are also those who just want to do black humor. Interesting to note that this time too among the accounts involved there are several with a brick in the nickname. They identify themselves as bricklayers, they are a network of very active accounts and often come together to trend their hashtags on the platform.
The moderation policies decided by Elon Musk obviously make the whole process much easier. We already talked about them in December. While Gino Cecchettin was a guest at che Tempo che Fa they had started publishing dozens of posts (that’s what they’re now called) about X to discredit his words. Now they’re back.
