Prince Harry, long known for being an outspoken advocate on mental health issues, is currently focused on a very tricky problem: social media and its effects on youth.
“In many cases, the smartphone is stealing young people’s childhood,” he said in a conversation, a video of which was exclusively shared with Fortune this week, with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation.
Haidt-whose four foundational smartphone rules have inspired both celebration and pushback-couldn’t agree more, explaining to Harry the premise of his book: That people born after 1995 (Gen Z, roughly) throughout the English-speaking world hit puberty with high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide, which all rose sharply between 2010 and 2012. And that it was no coincidence-but instead a direct result of the smartphone.
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