Court orders covered 835,207 of those blocks, while the ministry found 749,546 through its own monitoring, and the Royal Thai Police passed on information that led to another 85,661 blocks. A further 109,868 URLs came down through cooperation with digital platforms. MDES stressed that the figures count URLs and online content, not individual websites or operators.
The ministry shared the numbers after meeting anti-gambling and youth groups on October 5, and additionally stated that it plans to set up a working group with platforms such as TikTok and Meta. The group is expected to collect reports from the public, coordinate with platforms on suspected gambling activity, and pass information to the police. MDES also wants to work with search engines so illegal gambling sites become harder to find, and to bring young people and civil society groups into the monitoring effort. The ministry explained this decision by stressing that no single agency can solve the problem on its own.
The new total builds on earlier numbers, as between October 2025 and May 2026, MDES reported 673,699 blocked URLs, and it blocked another 13,888 links during the first 18 days of its World Cup campaign in June.
