Around a fifth of the time children aged eight to 14 spend on YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok and WhatsApp is between the hours of 9pm and 5am, the media watchdog has found

Around a fifth of the time children aged eight to 14 spend on YouTube , Snapchat, TikTok and WhatsApp is between the hours of 9pm and 5am, the media watchdog has found.

Ofcom’s annual report, published on Wednesday, said a “significant amount of the time online spent by children is at night”.

Some 4-10% of their time across the four social media apps is spent between 11pm-5am, while 15-24% is between 9pm and 5am, depending on the platform, it said. They are the four of the main services used by children.

Some children raised concerns with Ofcom about wasting time consuming addictive “brain rot” content on social med

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