Overview

• Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined $6.45 million by Italy's communications authority, AGCOM, for breaching the country's ban on gambling ads.
• The fine was issued after AGCOM detected 18 accounts and nearly three dozen sponsored pieces of content on Facebook and Instagram that promoted online betting or games with cash rewards.
• AGCOM has ordered Meta to remove these accounts.
• Earlier this month, AGCOM had penalized Google's YouTube and Amazon's Twitch for the same offense.
• Meta has previously been fined numerous times in Europe, primarily for violating data protection laws.