Encountering hateful content online by social class France

This statistic shows the results of a survey about hateful statements on the internet, which was conducted in France in February 2015. It illustrates the exposure to hateful online content, by socioprofessional category. Results show that people from upper socioprofessional categories were more exposed to offensive statements than lower socioprofessional categories and inactive people.

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Characteristic	Upper socioprofessional categories	Lower socioprofessional categories	Inactive people*
Racist statements	59%	49%	49%
Islamophobic statements	56%	46%	47%
Homophobic statements	51%	41%	43%
Xenophobic statements	53%	40%	44%
Anti-Semitic statements	49%	41%	40%
Conspiracy theories	49%	37%	31%
Negationist statements	47%	41%	33%

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Release date

February 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

February 18 to 19, 2015

Number of respondents

1,006 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

*Inactive people refers to people aged less than 15 years old, students, retirees, house-wives and house-husbands, persons unable to work.

Shares correspond to respondents who stated that they often, sometimes, or seldom faced the following types of content.

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