The official accounts of dozens of Italian far-right activists and the neo-fascist parties CasaPound and Forza Nuova were shut down on Monday for violating hate speech policies.
Italy's data protection watchdog slammed Facebook Friday with a fine of one million euros for violating privacy laws over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook announced on Friday changes to the way political advertisements are handled on the social media site ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections.
Facebook was fined by Italian authorities for selling users' data without informing them, and "aggressively" discouraging users from trying to limit how the company shares their data
Facebook has lost its appeal against a Milan startup after a court ruled that the social media giant had copied features from an app created by the smaller company.
The Italian competition authority Antitrust said on Friday it had opened an investigation into Facebook for "alleged improper commercial practices" by not adequately informing users about data-gathering.
A fugitive Italian mobster who had been living in Mexico under a false identity was behind bars Saturday after being tracked down on Facebook, police said.
Facebook has been forced to drop a feature which helped users discover their friends' locations, after a court ruled that it had copied an app created by a Milan start-up.
Italian paralympic fencing champion Beatrice Vio has taken legal action against an anonymous online sexual harassment campaign targeting her, it was reported on Wednesday.
Social media giant Facebook has backtracked on a decision to censor a painting by Italian artist Caravaggio, on the grounds that the nudity violated the site's rules.
Italian police on Sunday arrested a man suspected of being an Isis sympathiser who was found to have a collection of home-made explosive devices and detonators.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told Italian students how the social media site gave €500,000 to the Italian Red Cross following Wednesday's devastating earthquake in central Italy.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Q&A in Rome on Monday, the latest in a series of events during which employees get to interrogate the social media site’s owner.
Venetian footballer Daniele Berton, 25, was banned from the sport for three months yesterday after posting sexist insults and threats aimed at a female referee on his Facebook page.
An Italian boss who created a fake Facebook account in order to catch out an employee who was using the social networking site at work was not breaking the law, Italy's top court has ruled.
