Investigation
How Facebook bots tried to lure young men to Tabcorp-backed gambling app
Mark Di StefanoColumnist
Meta has removed pages with links to Tabcorp-backed online bookmaker Dabble that were found to be using Facebook’s AI chatbots to bombard users with private messages luring them to sign up to gambling apps.
An investigation by The Australian Financial Review uncovered two pages, called “The Shark” and “Roughie Kings 2022″ , which were owned by the same entrepreneurs behind Dabble – a $150 million “social gaming” start-up that was recently funded by Tabcorp.
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