The boss of an Italian government-controlled technology company resigned after he quoted the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in an internal email, according to numerous reports. Anastasio, who was appointed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in November, sent an inauguration email to board members quoting Mussolini, who ruled Italy as a dictator from 1922 to 1943. Meloni has worked to distance herself from ties to the Italian Social Movement or MSI, a political party founded by Mussolini supporters in 1946, in which she was involved as a teenager