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Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Premium Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Earlier this month, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced his New Year’s resolution. “I plan to become a social-media teetotaler in 2026,” he wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, announcing that he had deleted X and Instagram from his phone. His campaign team would still distribute messaging online, he said, but he would not spend his own time scrolling. Integral to his decision was his concern that social media was alienating him from the voters he hopes to serve in the governor’s mansion. “Modern social media is increasingly disconnected from the electorate,” the Republican wrote. “The messages you’re most likely to see are the most negative and bombastic, because they’re most likely to receive rapid ‘likes’ and ‘reposts’—and that drives revenue for social media content creators.” Though Ramaswamy’s commitment was new this year, some in Congress have previously sworn off social media, recognizing that it is an untrustworthy barometer of what their constituents think that also distracts them from their most important duties. “I don’t have any social media apps on my phone

Navigation for News Categories Pho Viet Street Food. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A Wellington man says his businesses lost up to $2000 a day after their Instagram and Facebook accounts were banned mistakenly. Alex Hoang is the general manager for two businesses in the capital, Pho Viet Street Food and Velvet Nail Room. On 14 January he was notified that the Instagram and Facebook accounts were locked due to sexual content on his page which he completely rejected. Hoang immediately appealed which resulted in Meta services saying he was permanently banned. He told RNZ after he was not getting anywhere with the normal process of escalating these issues, he contacted an email address that was not public after seeing an influencer use it who had similar problems. Following that the ban was reversed on Saturday. Hoang said his businesses relied social media a lot. "Social media is really important for those businesses as it is a channel for us to communicate with customers." He estimated the two businesses were losing between $1000-$2000 per day.  » Read More

Navigation for News Categories Pho Viet Street Food. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A Wellington man says his businesses lost up to $2000 a day after their Instagram and Facebook accounts were banned mistakenly. Alex Hoang is the general manager for two businesses in the capital, Pho Viet Street Food and Velvet Nail Room. On 14 January he was notified that the Instagram and Facebook accounts were locked due to sexual content on his page which he completely rejected. Hoang immediately appealed which resulted in Meta services saying he was permanently banned. He told RNZ after he was not getting anywhere with the normal process of escalating these issues, he contacted an email address that was not public after seeing an influencer use it who had similar problems. Following that the ban was reversed on Saturday. Hoang said his businesses relied social media a lot. "Social media is really important for those businesses as it is a channel for us to communicate with customers." He estimated the two businesses were losing between $1000-$2000 per day. "A lot of customers very luckily they contacted me, they thought something was wrong with me something was wrong with the business, which is

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LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Adam Scott returned to the Sony Open for the first time in three years and jokingly said it was a good place to stop on the way back from Australia. He had other motives, of course. For the second time in three years, Scott finished outside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup and is not eligible for the $20 million signature events. “So I thought I’d try to get a jump on things, rather than show up in February and chase,” Scott said. He tied for 40th in the Sony Open, and then flew to California for The American Express and the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Otherwise, it’s going through the process of two years ago when he had to rely on sponsor exemptions for the signature events. Scott asked for (and received) exemptions into five of the signature events in 2024, and he can only wonder if it will hurt his chances going through another round of them. Scott is in a tougher spot than Jordan Spieth,  » Read More

Plans have been submitted to build padel courts and a clubhouse at an overflow car park at the RAF base in Odiham. Mission Padel Ltd has asked Hart District Council for prior approval to build five covered padel courts on land used as an overflow carpark for detached personnel at the RAF Odiham base. The plans also include a clubhouse, with a food and beverage facility, wellness areas and golf simulators. 3D perspective of the site (Image: Mission Padel Ltd/Hart District Council) The facilities will be for the sole use of the Ministry of Defence, for RAF personnel and their family members to 'aid in their physical training and provide an area where they and their families can socialise' according to the developer. The company said the site will be built on an existing car park that's now surplus to requirements. There will be a wellness and changing area with changing cabins and a sauna, a golf simulation studio, as well as a clubhouse with a large internal seating area and an upstairs deck.  » Read More

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