B
Evidence Grade B
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24%
24% -- parents reporting child received inappropriate messages in game for Australian parents of children playing online games with chat (2026)
24% of Australian parents whose children play online games with chat report their child has received inappropriate or offensive messages.
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Value
24%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
AU
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Norton (Gen)
Primary
Tier A
https://au.norton.com/blog/family-safety/platform-bans-and-parenting ↗
Source Article
The Bots & The Bees: Platform bans and parenting
Original Research
Norton (Gen)
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Methodology
Subset of the 46% of Australian parents whose child plays online games with chat; Norton 2026 Connected Kids study
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Industrymarketing
RegionAU
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Australian parents of children playing online games with chat: 24% parents reporting child received inappropriate messages in game. Source: Norton (Gen) (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/au-gaming-chat-inappropriate-messages-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/au-gaming-chat-inappropriate-messages-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>24%</strong> -- parents reporting child received inappropriate messages in game for Australian parents of children playing online games with chat<br><small>Source: Norton (Gen) (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/au-gaming-chat-inappropriate-messages-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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