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Illegal gambling advertising has been especially targeted at young adults on social media channels for several years. Marketing typically utilises the popularity of social media celebrities and aims to associate gambling with images of success, coping well in life, prosperity and publicity. However, gambling causes serious social, health and economic harms, which are ignored in advertising.

On 16 December 2022, the National Police Board has made a decision on the case of internal legality control relating to the events during the demonstration organized by the Finnish branch of Extinction Rebellion (Finnish name Elokapina) outside the Government Palace in Helsinki on 8 October 2021.