More than a third of children found racist, homophobic, or sexist content upsetting or frightening, up from under a quarter last year.
One in three children said they are upset or scared by violent content compared to under one in five last year, according to survey of more than 1,000 children aged between nine and 16 and their parents.
Children are finding it “harder to harder to navigate and recover from the challenges of the digital world”, warns web industry-backed campaign Internet Matters, which has revealed the findings in its annual Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World report.
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