Fanpage: the Italian website that went from gossip to award-winning scoops
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo from World news | The Guardian on (#5TV4F)
What started as a Facebook page is now an investigative news operation with millions of readers a day
It was 7.55am one February day in 2018 when members of an elite Italian police squad raided the Naples office of small news website. The previous day it had revealed links between elected politicians and organised groups in an illegal waste dumping racket, and its staff already at their desks looked on incredulously as the officers searched through their files.
The story sent shock waves through the political establishment and helped make fanpage.it what it is today: one of Italy's most successful news sites.
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