[FILES] Luigi Di Maio, leader of Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement, pauses during a news conference in Rome, Italy, on Monday, March 5, 2018. Getty Image
Luigi Di Maio, a key figure in Italy’s populist government, has taken aim at the country’s newspapers, accusing them of “polluting the debate” and threatening to pull advertising by state-owned companies.
“The newspapers… are now polluting the public debate every day and the worst is that they are doing it with public money,” the deputy prime minister wrote on his Facebook page this week.
And he warned that in its next budget, the government was planning “a reduction of indirect state contributions” to the press.
“We are preparing a letter to state-owned companies to ask them to stop paying for newspapers” by…
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