{"id":9988,"date":"2024-05-10T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/revealed-how-fun-social-media-accounts-direct-fans-to-betting-giant-17\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:58:30","slug":"revealed-how-fun-social-media-accounts-direct-fans-to-betting-giant-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/revealed-how-fun-social-media-accounts-direct-fans-to-betting-giant-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how \u2018fun\u2019 social media accounts direct fans to betting giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Boring Milner\u2019 and \u2018Andy Robson\u2019 accounts work with Fanwave Digital, a firm paid by Paddy Power Betfair to post betting tips<\/p>\n<p>Popular social media accounts, including betting \u201ctipsters\u201d and a cult parody of the footballer James Milner, have been working as part of a marketing network directing users towards a major betting website.<\/p>\n<p>One of the accounts, @AndyRobsonTips, gives the impression that it is run by an individual helping fans beat the bookies. Another, known as @BoringMilner, is widely known as a parody account that posts jokes about football for fun.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/revealed-how-fun-social-media-accounts-direct-fans-to-betting-giant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Boring Milner\u2019 and \u2018Andy Robson\u2019 accounts work with Fanwave Digital, a firm paid by Paddy Power Betfair to post betting tips Popular social media accounts, including betting \u201ctipsters\u201d and a cult parody of the footballer James Milner, have been working as part of a marketing network directing users towards a major betting website. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}