Ireland’s Advertising Standards Authority found that two TonyBet YouTube adverts breached rules by portraying gambling as a way to make money. TonyBet acknowledged the failures and attributed them to human error and a third-party agency’s lack of compliance review.
The ruling highlights that gambling adverts portraying betting as a way to make money breach Irish rules.
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Gambling lawyer Justin Franssen said the KSA already has sufficient legal powers to act against Meta over illegal online casino advertising. During a panel discussion, he questioned why licensed gambling operators must initiate court proceedings themselves to combat the illegal market.
Gambling lawyer Justin Franssen said the Dutch gambling authority KSA already has sufficient legal powers to act against Meta over advertisements for illegal online casinos, and questioned why licensed operators must bring court proceedings themselves to address the illegal market. Franssen made the remarks during a panel discussion at the SBC Summit in Lisbon, moderated by Frank Op de Woerd, according to a report.
Lawyer Justin Franssen, a partner at Franssen Tolboom Attorneys at Law, accused the KSA of leaving existing enforcement powers unused against platforms carrying illegal gambling ads in the Netherlands. VNLOK chairman Björn Fuchs said the association's lawsuit seeks to compel Meta to fulfil its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act.
Lawyer Justin Franssen, a partner at Franssen Tolboom Attorneys at Law, said the KSA has the legal powers to act against Meta and other platforms that carry illegal gambling advertisements but does not use them. He made the accusation at the SBC Summit on Wednesday, according to a report of the panel. The Dutch online gambling trade association VNLOK has sued Meta, and its chairman, Björn Fuchs, set out what the association expects from the case.
Betting industry groups are preparing legal action against technology companies over revenue from allegedly illegal advertising. The groups say they want the advertising to stop immediately.
The Associação Nacional de Jogos e Loterias (ANJL) and the Instituto Brasileiro de Jogo Responsável (IBJR) are preparing a joint legal action against large digital platforms that carry and monetise advertising from sports betting and virtual gaming operators not authorised to operate in Brazil. The associations say the aim is to stop irregular advertising immediately and to establish that platforms cannot be treated as neutral intermediaries when they earn revenue from advertisements placed by operators outside the law.
The Netherlands' KSA has not ruled out legal action against Google and Meta over illegal gambling advertising. KSA board chairman Michel Groothuizen discussed efforts against illegal gambling five years after the regulated online market opened.
A Quaest poll found that 16% of respondents who were optimistic about Brazil's future cited regulation of betting and social media as a source of hope under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. That group represented 44% of respondents, making the combined issue about 7% of the full sample; the poll did not separate betting from social-media regulation. The survey interviewed 2,004 people from 30 October to 2 November.