Children are spending an average of 15 hours a week online – more than twice as much as they did a decade ago.
A new study also suggests that youngsters are increasingly trusting of what they see on the internet and sometimes lack the understanding to decide what is true and impartial and what is not.
Almost a fifth of 12 to 15-year-olds polled for Ofcom’s Children and Parents: Media use and attitudes 2015 report believed that information returned by search engines such as Google or Bing must be true. Only a third were able to identify paid-for advertisements within these results.
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