Britain’s Gambling Commission said on Monday that Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was turning a blind eye to illegal online casinos advertising on its sites, indicating it was happy to continue taking money from criminals.
The independent regulator’s executive director Tim Miller said that anyone who has spent even a little time on Meta’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 in Britain’s “GamStop” self-exclusion scheme for online gambling, he said.
Meta’s assertion that it did not know about such ads until it was notified was “simply false”, he said in a speech at the ICE Barcelona trade show, according to the text on the Gambling Commission’s website.
