Stefan Mileschin

The country which bought us Mussolini, Berlusconi and the Mafia has told Facebook to sort out online brown-shirts, crime and hate-speech.

The president of Italy’s lower house of parliament said, warning that rising abuse on various social media was being fueled by fake news.

Laura Boldrini who has been targeted by sexist insults and online threats, complained to Facebook managers in November about hate speech on the social network and put forward several proposals on ways to deal with the problem.

They did what they always do – ignored the complaints. In fact two months after the meeting they have not even bothered to write back.

She said she would write an open letter to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week reiterating her call for a more effective and timely policing of his site.

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