Hanh said she is seeing more anti-immigration messages on social media, such as \u201cwhy are you in my country, get out,\u201d she said. \u201cThen that\u2019s being dragged into school by students who are seeing this \u2026 it\u2019s coming into school environment, which is not good for learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
News snooze<\/p>\n
Look away now, journalists: The group largely agreed that the news is boring.<\/p>\n
Some listen in when their parents have the television or radio on, but all said they get most of their news from social media or the odd push alert.<\/p>\n
Asked why they think the news is so dull, Hanh \u2014 who plays field hockey and enjoys art at school \u2014\u00a0said: \u201cIt just looks really boring to look at, there are no cool pictures or any funny things or fun colors. It just doesn\u2019t look like something I\u2019d be interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she prefers social media: \u201cWith TikTok, you can interact with stuff and look at comments and see other people\u2019s views, [but with the news] you just see evidence and you see all these facts. Sometimes it can be about really disturbing stuff like murder and stuff like that. If it\u2019s going to pop up with that, I don\u2019t really want to watch that.\u201d<\/p>\n
These children aren\u2019t alone in pointing to social media as their preferred source of news. A 2025 report by communications watchdog Ofcom found that 57 percent of 12-15-year-olds consume news on social media, with TikTok being the most commonly used platform, followed by YouTube and then Instagram.<\/p>\n
Sophie isn\u2019t convinced that the news is for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes if my parents put it on the TV and it\u2019s about something that\u2019s really bad that\u2019s happened, then I\u2019ll definitely look at it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut otherwise, I think it would probably be more for older people because they would like to watch basically whatever\u2019s on the TV because they can\u2019t really be bothered to change the channel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hanh said she is seeing more anti-immigration messages on social media, such as \u201cwhy are you in my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[5108,748,1193,2311,2001,31,13071,2266,33,34,393,36,4884,3941,40,807,1198,2452,218,6657,384,1144,7965,15894,712,182,1200,16,15,1764,771,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-664046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-asylum","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-climate-change","14":"tag-communications","15":"tag-democracy","16":"tag-disinformation","17":"tag-education","18":"tag-elections","19":"tag-emmanuel-macron","20":"tag-england","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-great-britain","23":"tag-health-care","24":"tag-immigration","25":"tag-keir-starmer","26":"tag-kemi-badenoch","27":"tag-media","28":"tag-mental-health","29":"tag-migration","30":"tag-nigel-farage","31":"tag-northern-ireland","32":"tag-platforms","33":"tag-racism","34":"tag-scotland","35":"tag-social-media","36":"tag-tax","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom","39":"tag-wales","40":"tag-war","41":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115812575969317198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}