{"id":108613,"date":"2022-01-10T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108613"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:33:12","slug":"telegraph-children-risk-being-targeted-by-aggressive-gambling-adverts-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108613","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Children risk being targeted by \u2018aggressive gambling adverts on social media\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has warned that a social media advertising \u201cloophole\u201d could leave children exposed to \u201caggressive\u201d gambling adverts.<\/p>\n<p>Rt Revd Alan Smith, the Bishop of St Albans, said a ruling this week by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), set a concerning \u201cprecedent\u201d for promotions on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog\u2019s ruling dismissed complaints about poker adverts on a popular YouTube channel, as the owner supplied analytics from the site showing that most of his audience were over 18.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Bishop warned that the analytics were an \u201cincredibly dubious metric\u201d as YouTube, which has a minimum age of 13, does not have any age verification and many viewers watch it without signing into an account.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/children-risk-targeted-aggressive-gambling-adverts-social-media\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f4f1;The Church of England has warned that a social media advertising \u201cloophole\u201d could leave children exposed to \u201caggressive\u201d gambling adverts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VQZa6Qyoyw\">https:\/\/t.co\/VQZa6Qyoyw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Telegraph\/status\/1479851811729289223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has warned that a social media advertising \u201cloophole\u201d could leave children exposed to \u201caggressive\u201d gambling adverts. Rt Revd Alan Smith, the Bishop of St Albans, said a ruling this week by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA),<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108613\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,389,635,199,168,87,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108616,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108613\/revisions\/108616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}