Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer

Young men from generation Z are more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism has done more harm than good, research found. Photograph: Ievgen Chabanov/Alamy

Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence, which explores the insidious influence of “incel-culture”.

Jack Thorne, whose Netflix show has started a national conversation about the danger of online spaces for teenagers, argued that algorithms used on social media platforms could quickly lead to “dark spaces”.