In recent days, the false "news" on three cases of Ebola in Lampedusa had been shared on thousands of Facebook profiles, has become "a rain of cancellations at hotels standard structures" of the place.

The postal police has succeeded to trace the author of the news, a Torinese craftsman of 44 years who has sympathy for the extreme right (in your profile there were numerous pictures of Mussolini) and xenophobic positions.
"With complex investigation we were able to trace the author of the message," he explained the director of the police post, "we reached at his home in Torino, where he confessed."
The consortium hoteliers have criticized "yet another spreading false information denigrating and alarmist", deciding at the same time to promote the civil and criminal legal action against the author. The claim could amount to ten million euro.

From Vice (ita)