Just 3% of the more than 7,000 hate complaints reported to Police Scotland the first week of controversial new hate legislation coming into force were found to be a crime.
Official figures released by the force show 7,152 online hate reports were made to police online between April 1 and April 7.
Officers found only 240 of these were hate crimes, representing 3.3% of all hate reports.
As well as the more than 7,000 online reports, police also dealt with 430 incidents in the first week where a hate crime tag was added, while there were 34 calls to either 101 or 999 relating to a hate crime and 141 emails sent to Police Scotland for the same purpose.