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  Facebook’s “Online Gambling” policy

  Posted by 10Kfireants on October 28, 2022 at 5:56 pm

  Our restaurant hosted a raffle event. You buy a ticket, a lady spun the wheel and whoever held the winning number won a prize (off topic, but the prizes were all various meats to take home and cook; apparently “meat raffles” are *yuge* up north).
  In our state, this is considered a gambling event. You’re spending money on a game of chance. The proceeds from tickets go to charity/a nonprofit runs the event for us.

  Before boosting our calendar event and posts, I read Facebook’s gambling rules super carefully. They state that any ads “about online gamblng” must be pre-approved. This wasn’t online gambling, this was a live event.

  *Almost* everything (including the FB event) got approved and we packed the place (yay!) but I noticed in Ads manager today my last boosted post — one week til — was denied for violating the gambling policy. Gave the policy another read and I’m pretty sure if I did request a review or even explain via customer servive, it’d be approved. **BUT** it’s not completely moot because after this raffle we’ll definitely hold others and similar events in the future. Will I run into hell in the future boosting gambling events/is there anything I’m missing in the policy that would mean I can’t advertise these?

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