Meta recently announced a change to its rules for gambling advertising. Attorneys general have recently more vigorously defended their states’ legal gambling markets from unregulated. Still, ads from offshore or nonexistent websites mimicking actual legal casinos continue to jam the social media feeds of most anyone who searches for gambling content online.
In West Virginia, it’s often Wheeling Island Casino, which caught the attention of state Del. Shawn Fluharty, who represents the district where that casino resides. Igaming is legal in West Virginia, but the ad in question eventually routes to an offshore website.
In Florida, where the Seminole Tribe owns a virtual monopoly on gambling, but online casino isn’t legal, fake ads for an online Hard Rock casino are ubiquitous.