"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. But that approach suggests that they don't know about those ads unless alerted. That is simply false."
"I would be very surprised if Meta, as one of the world's largest tech companies is incapable of proactively using their own keyword facility to prevent the advertising of illegal gambling. It could leave you with the impression they are quite happy to turn a blind eye and continue taking money from criminals and scammers until someone shouts about it."
The UK Gambling Commission found Facebook and Instagram carry advertisements from unlicensed online gambling operators despite Meta's policy requiring operators to be licensed in the markets where their ads run. The commission used basic searches and discovered advertisers not registered on GamStop, a self-exclusion scheme required for UK licensing. The commission criticized Meta's reactive approach of removing illegal ads only after notification and said the platform could proactively use keyword tools to block illegal gambling advertising. The findings were presented at a regulatory conference in Barcelona and raised concerns about scammers monetizing ads while platforms accept their revenue.
Read at Engadget
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