It is proved that any continuous function ϕ on the unit circle such that the sequence {e inϕ } n∈Z has small Wiener norm e inϕ = o(log 1/22 |n|(log log |n|) −3/11 ), |n| → ∞, is linear. Moreover, lower bounds for the Wiener norms of the characteristic functions of subsets of Z p in the case of prime p are obtained.