{"id":986453,"date":"2026-01-20T08:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986453"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:15:18","slug":"meta-turning-a-blind-eye-to-illegal-gambling-ads-uk-gambling-commission-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/meta-turning-a-blind-eye-to-illegal-gambling-ads-uk-gambling-commission-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta &#8216;turning a blind eye&#8217; to illegal gambling ads, UK Gambling Commission says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Gambling Commission said on Monday that \u200dMeta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was turning a \u2060blind eye to illegal online casinos advertising on its sites, indicating it was happy to continue taking money from criminals. <\/p>\n<p>The independent \u200cregulator&#8217;s executive \u200cdirector Tim Miller said that anyone who has spent even a little \u200ctime on Meta&#8217;s platforms would more than likely have seen ads in their feed for illegal online casinos. <\/p>\n<p>Most notably, many of the ads were for sites that did not participate \u200bin Britain&#8217;s &#8220;GamStop&#8221; self-exclusion scheme for online \u200bgambling, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Gambling Commission said on Monday that \u200dMeta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was turning a \u2060blind eye to illegal online casinos advertising on its sites, indicating it was happy to continue taking money from criminals. The independent \u200cregulator&#8217;s executive \u200cdirector Tim Miller said that anyone who has spent even a little \u200ctime on Meta&#8217;s platforms would more than likely have seen ads in their feed for illegal online casinos. Most notably, many of the ads were for sites that did not participate \u200bin Britain&#8217;s &#8220;GamStop&#8221; self-exclusion scheme for online \u200bgambling, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}