(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Netherlands Gambling Authority has imposed a penalty on three gambling influencers. These influencers are Stiefunspeelt, Turcos, and Buurtwachtt. The penalty is a follow-up to previously announced steps by the Ksa to take stricter action against influencers. Because influencers often appeal to a young and therefore vulnerable target group, it is crucial to combat this content.
Influencers Stiefunspeelt, Turcos, and Buurtwachtt posted videos on their social media platforms featuring gambling with illegal providers. They also actively promoted gambling by encouraging their followers to also gamble with these illegal providers. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Ksa) has previously explicitly reminded all three influencers that creating videos promoting illegal gambling is prohibited. Therefore, the Ksa is imposing a penalty on all three influencers. This requires them to remove existing content within 48 hours and prohibits them from creating new advertisements for illegal providers. If they do so, the influencer who committed the violation will receive a penalty of €25,000 per violation, with a maximum of €75,000.
The Ksa continues to closely monitor these types of violations and emphasizes that young people must be protected from this type of content about illegal gambling. If influencers do not respond to requests to remove content, the tech platforms are also involved to remove the content as quickly as possible.