Meta Fined $6.45 Million by Italy for Breaching Gambling Ad Ban

The fine was issued after promotional material for betting or games involving money was found on 18 profiles and 32 sponsored contents on Facebook and Instagram.

• 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.

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