{"id":5121,"date":"2026-01-20T03:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/uk-agency-questions-metas-policies-for-illegal-gambling-site-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:03:45","slug":"uk-agency-questions-metas-policies-for-illegal-gambling-site-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/uk-agency-questions-metas-policies-for-illegal-gambling-site-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"UK agency questions Meta&#8217;s policies for illegal gambling site ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">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&#8217;s Executive Director Tim Miller criticized Meta&#8217;s behavior towards advertisements for online gambling on its Facebook and Instagram social networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&#8220;Companies like Meta will tell you that they don\u2019t tolerate the advertising of illegal sites and will remove them if they are notified about them,&#8221; Miller&#8217;s speech transcript reads. &#8220;But that approach suggests that they don\u2019t know about those ads unless alerted. That is simply false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Meta&#8217;s internal policy is that gambling sites must be licensed in the markets where their ads run. 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