The UK Gambling Commission has raised concerns that Meta is ignoring advertisements by illegal gambling websites on its platforms. At a conference in Barcelona, the commission’s Executive Director Tim Miller criticized Meta’s behavior towards advertisements for online gambling on its Facebook and Instagram social networks.
“Companies like Meta will tell you that they don’t tolerate the advertising of illegal sites and will remove them if they are notified about them,” Miller’s speech transcript reads. “But that approach suggests that they don’t know about those ads unless alerted. That is simply false.”
Meta’s internal policy is that gambling sites must be licensed in the markets where their ads run. However, the agency
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