Day: 26 November 2020

The American social media conglomerate Facebook allowed several thousand posts and ads, including ones involving gambling, which breached the existing UK legislation. The adverts even included some that offered suspicious cures for the novel coronavirus infection. After the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) addressed the company and informed that some of the promotional posts and advertisements violated its regulations, Facebook made sure it deleted over 2,000 ads and posts targeting UK users in the period from January to June 2020. The social media company itself revealed that almost 1,500 accounts, ads…

The operator of the UK National Lottery, Camelot, has announced the second-best sales figures in its entire almost 30-year history after it registered an increase in the number of older people playing online. The UK Lottery operator revealed that in the six months to the end of September 2020 its sales fell by 1.7% from the record half-year revenue generated by the company in 2019, reaching £3.95 billion. Camelot actually did great on that, despite an 18% sales decline registered over the first two weeks of the national lockdown in…