“FCA warns social media giants over ‘dodgy’ investment adverts”

Sep 29, 2021 | Digital

I really think they’re fighting a losing battle here. There are so many who believe whatever they want to believe on the internet that it will always be a scammers paradise. Some of those were waving placards on Burford roundabout yesterday, ‘The media lies’, ‘Don’t take the vaccine’, ‘Don’t poison our children’. If adverts for unregulated investments were banned, or advisers advising on unregulated investments faced banning, that might be progress. At least then, those sticking their money into something ‘dodgy’ would only have themselves to blame. Wouldn’t they?

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