Beauty influencers can be 'just as toxic as Andrew Tate', a psychiatrist has claimed.
Professor Matthew Sadlier believes attitudes towards young people's use of smartphones need 'societal change'.
He has seen a rise in extreme eating disorders in young patients and insists that certain influencers are as damaging as self-proclaimed misogynist Tate – who urges men online to 'reject feminism' and dominate women.
'You go into that world with the beauty influencers: I think beauty influencers are just as toxic as Andrew Tate, they're just toxic to a different population,' he said during a Festival of Politics event at the Scottish Parliament.
'The problem is, one video on how to put on whatever piece of makeup is probably reasonable. But how many people watch one video?'
