Author: Brian Pempus
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Help ProPublica Uncover How DraftKings, FanDuel Use Your Data
Your sports gambling data can tell a very important story. Online sportsbooks and prediction markets are under scrutiny these days for how they may offer gambling inducements to people who may have a problem with their play. This scrutiny comes as a former U.S. Surgeon General described online sports betting as the “new opioid crisis.”…
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‘Quitters, Inc.’ And Whether Stopping Is Always Recovery
The historical parallels between tobacco, primarily cigarettes, and online gambling products are increasingly emphasized these days, as a reform movement grows to rein in sports betting. In the spirit of Halloween, I was in the mood for horror-themed portrayals of addiction treatment and/or recovery and stumbled upon the film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 short…
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Polymarket Fortune Cookies Expose Overlooked Gambling Advertising
The online gambling boom has come for our cookies. But this isn’t just about brand awareness; it’s also about encouraging consumers to bet. Polymarket, a prediction market betting site in the U.S., reportedly appears in U.S. fortune cookies, according to recent social media posts on X and Reddit. The photographs show a QR code, but its…
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Ohio Bans Gambler For Violent Threats Against MLB Manager
Ohio says it has banned a gambler from state-sanctioned sports betting after he made violent threats against a Major League Baseball manager. The Ohio Casino Control Commission said in an order for involuntary exclusion from gambling that Blake Morgan “made harassing and threatening statements about Toronto Blue Jays Manager John Schneider while on a phone…
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NJ Describes Its Online Gambling Industry As ‘Unscrupulous’
“Unscrupulous operators” — that’s the language New Jersey’s attorney general’s office used as the state confronts reports that some of its online gambling operators have used controversial tactics to take their booty from users. Not offshore, but New Jersey’s legal gambling sites that won $3.13 billion from January through September of this year, according to…
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