{"id":30263,"date":"2022-05-30T06:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30263"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:17:22","slug":"authorities-in-the-philippines-ask-facebook-to-remove-e-sabong-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/authorities-in-the-philippines-ask-facebook-to-remove-e-sabong-pages","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in the Philippines ask Facebook to remove e-sabong pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities have asked Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook, to block pages promoting e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- The\u00a0Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)\u00a0<\/strong>has asked Facebook to block pages promoting online cockfights. DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya\u00a0<\/strong>has submitted a request listing seven Facebook pages, groups, and accounts identified by the PNP Anti-Cyber Crime Group as catering to illegal e-sabong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to PhilStar, Malaya stated: “We hope that Facebook will immediately suspend or block pages devoted to illegal sabong as fast as they suspend pages that allegedly violate their community standards. I presume that engaging in illegal activities is a violation of FB\u2019s standards.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department has thanked the Central Bank of the Philippines for heeding\u00a0President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to stop e-Sabong operations<\/a>\u00a0in the country by immediately ordering its bank-regulated financial institutions to remove all e-Sabong operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported last week that they had found\u00a012 E-Sabong sites still operating<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the gaming regulator\u00a0PAGCOR<\/a>\u00a0continues seeking new forms of revenue to replace e-sabong comings. The regulator\u2019s chairman Andrea Domingo had previously said PAGCOR could raise about Php7.2bn to Php8bn if e-sabong continued to operate until the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities have asked Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook, to block pages promoting e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in the Philippines has formally requested Meta, parent company of Facebook, to block pages promoting illegal e-sabong operations. This action follows the Central Bank's directive to financial institutions to cease transactions with e-sabong operators and the Philippine National Police's identification of active illegal sites. The gaming regulator PAGCOR faces a significant revenue shortfall, estimated at Php7.2bn-Php8bn, due to the ban and is actively seeking alternative revenue streams.","focusai_entities":"Meta, Facebook, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Jonathan Malaya, PNP Anti-Cyber Crime Group, PhilStar, Rodrigo Duterte, Central Bank of the Philippines, Philippine National Police (PNP), PAGCOR, Andrea Domingo","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on PAGCOR's Revenue?","query":"What specific strategies is PAGCOR implementing to mitigate the Php7.2bn-Php8bn revenue shortfall from the e-sabong ban, and which new gaming verticals are being considered for licensing?"},{"label":"Platform Compliance Standards?","query":"How will Meta's response to the DILG's request for blocking illegal e-sabong pages influence its global content moderation policies for iGaming-related content, particularly concerning B2C licensing and regulatory compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[24019],"class_list":["post-30263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-e-sabong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30268,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30263\/revisions\/30268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}