iGaming Daily: Gambling Commission’s Tim Miller slams ‘nonsensical’ Big Tech

by A.J. Koehn
4 minutes read
Stakeholders in the licensed gambling sector will be painfully aware of the marketing shenanigans by black market operators running free across major social networks.

For some time now, the case has been that all social media platforms – from X, through Facebook and Instagram, to TikTok – have seen an infestation of illicit gambling ads in one form or another.

Black market operators leveraging these communication channels to target domestic market consumers has been a widespread practice in the UK in particular, with even Google – although not your traditional social media platform – hosting lists of available unlicensed casinos.

It is obvious that these Big Tech companies have a significant role to play in curbing the multi-billion-pound black market.

However, in an exclusive interview with SBC, Tim Miller, Executive Director of Research and Policy at the UK’s Gambling Commission, sounded more frustrated rather than satisfied with the cooperation he’s seen from Big Tech over the ..

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