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Adolescence is not a template for social media policy

22 March 2025

3:02 PM

22 March 2025

3:02 PM

What was Netflix’s Adolescence? An undoubtedly skilled portrayal of provoking fiction by an ensemble of gifted actors. What is it not? A fly-on-the-wall documentary that should be used as a policy framework to tell an already marginalised group of white working-class boys to curb their predatory emojis.

Adolescence is a 4-part drama that follows a 13-year-old boy accused of knifing his female classmate to death.

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