They warn millions of children are at greater threat from disinformation due to digital exclusion and lack of training in tackling online threats.
In a report researchers are calling for government guidance to help “mitigate potential harms”, including helping children to identify fake news and keep them safe.
The research has been produced by former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield’s think-tank the Centre for Young Lives and eight universities in the North of England involved in the Child of the North initiative to share research on improving lives of children in the region.
Longfield says recent racist and Islamophobic rioting “have shown the consequences of disinformation and its impact on the real world”.
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