Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has written to five of the world’s biggest online platforms to demand they stop advertising sweepstakes casinos to state residents.

Uthmeier sent near-identical letters to Google (which owns YouTube), Meta (Facebook), Reddit, Snap (Snapchat), and TikTok on September 24, warning that promoting illegal gambling is a crime under Florida law.

The companies have until October 23 to explain in writing what steps they have taken to prevent sweepstakes casino advertising from reaching Floridians.

Uthmeier specifically names Stake and VGW-owned Chumba Casino, LuckyLand, and Global Poker, all of which were targeted by lawsuits filed by Uthmeier’s office last month.

“It has come to my attention that your company may be advertising illegal ‘sweepstakes’ casinos on its social media platforms to residents of Florida,” Uthmeier wrote in the letter to Google.

“Promoting illegal gambling is a crime under Florida law.”

The move suggests Uthmeier wants to dismantle the infrastructure that supports sweepstakes casinos rather than just targeting the operators themselves.

On August 19, the attorney general filed two lawsuits in Hillsborough County Circuit Court against Stake and VGW, as well as payment processors allegedly facilitating transactions for the companies. Those include Worldpay and Trustly in the VGW case, and Praxis and Breeze Labs in the Stake litigation.