Barnardo’s says survey shows online abuse and harassment becoming ‘part of background noise of growing up’
Nearly one in five girls in the UK receive persistent, unwanted images online, according to a poll by the charity Barnardo’s, which warned that online misogyny was becoming an everyday part of childhood.
Its survey of 4,000 young peoplefound that a quarter of girls had been called degrading names online, while one in seven 13- to 15-year-olds had been asked to send a nude photo.
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