Mumbai, Oct 6 (PTI) Over 1 lakh unlawful contents were removed from social media platforms in the last 18 months, Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Monday highlighting the need to save gullible investors from fraudsters.

Pandey said Sebi had escalated the issue of unlawful content with platforms like Google and Meta.

Speaking at an investor awareness event at NSE here, he said the advent of technology tools has made it easier for the wrongdoers to post problematic content which deceives investors, and underlined that maintaining trust is important to ensure that no one falls prey.

“More than 1 lakh such items have been escalated in the last 18 months," he said.

Citing the results of a recent survey of 90,000 respondents undertaken by Sebi, Pandey said only 36 per cent of people

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