Hearing: Facebook is interested in the gambling business

The social network Facebook is negotiating with experts, consultants and developers in the field of gambling about creating virtual venues for online casinos in the UK. This, according to Vesti.ru , wrote the British newspaper The Daily Mail with reference to informed sources in the edition of the gambling of Egaming Review.

The first partners of Facebook in the new project can be the largest companies in the British gambling market - Gamesys, PokerStarts and 888 Holdings.

The newspaper recalls that users can now play roulette or bingo, betting and paying virtual currency (Facebook Credits), not real money. You can exchange real money for virtual "loans" using gift cards, credit cards or PayPal.

Gamesys slot machines, developer Jackpotjoy, has 1.7 million active users on Facebook. 888 The audience has more modest - 650 thousand people a month playing Bingo Island for virtual money.

In total, Facebook plans to distribute eight licenses for the development of gambling at its venues. Although this information has not yet received official confirmation, the new initiative of the largest social network of the world caused a sharp protest from the public figures of Great Britain.

Critics of plans for the development of online casino on Facebook say that even if the money does not move from one owner to another, young children learn the mechanism of gambling, and this can lead to serious consequences. The experts are concerned about a possible negative impact not only on children, but also on other low -proof sections of the population.

Recall, in the homeland of Facebook, the UIGEA law is in force in the USA, which actually forbade citizens of this country legally play virtual casinos. According to this law, it is possible to play, in principle, but not to enter the money to the accounts of the online casino and withdraw it from there-no.

Uigea painfully hit not only casino lovers from the USA, but also on the online casino itself, since gambling on the Internet, including poker, is one of the favorite types of traffic users of the Internet, and the Americans make up a significant share of the players.