Research findings from Internet Matters reveal that a quarter of children have been contacted online by strangers, a fifth have seen violent content, and two-fifths have encountered fake information.
The charity’s Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World Index research is published every year and this time is based on the experiences of 1,054 children aged 9 to 16 and their parents.
The research aims to track the impact of digital technology on children's physical, social, emotional, and developmental wellbeing and family life.
Published this week, it warns that there has been “no reduction in children’s experiences of harm online” since last year and that children seem to be finding it harder to “navigate and recover from the challenges of the digital world”.
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