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<\/a><\/p>\nOfcom said most of these children had mistakenly assumed that the results were chosen by some kind of authoritative figure who had hand selected accurate pages.<\/p>\n
Hateful media<\/strong> The children were told this could involve hateful comments, images or videos posted to social media including YouTube. Of the 12-to-15-year-olds who replied, 27% said they had “sometimes” seen instances of hate speech over the past year, and a further 7% said they had “often” seen examples.<\/p>\n Ofcom noted that children from the three lowest social and economic groups in the UK were twice as likely to have given “often” as their answer as those from more wealthy backgrounds. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe report was based on interviews carried out with 2,059 families between April and June.
\nThe hate speech question asked: “In the past year, have you seen anything hateful on the internet that has been directed at a particular group of people, based on, for instance, their gender, religion, disability, sexuality or gender identity?”<\/p>\n