Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Florida gas prices expected to rise, again, after Trump issues blockade in Iran

At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed ...

JPMorgan has 300,000 employees, but Jamie Dimon says the bank wins by deploying small teams like Navy SEALs

Despite JPMorgan having more than 300,000 employees worldwide, he claimed the best way to fix a problem is to assign it to a ...
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Trump fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General

After defending President Donald Trump from accusations of pedophilia and sexual misconduct, and trying to save him from ...
Gladwin County Record and Beaverton Clarion

The Boy Baker is not loafing around

GLADWINAcommon complaint among older generations is that too many of today’s young people spend their time in their parents’ basement loafing around on social media.Gabriel Hadley is 19 and an expert ...
Scientific American

Is social media addictive? The science reveals what’s at stake

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...
The Conversation

Early wins for the social media ban, new survey claims. But the full picture is far more complicated

Australia’s world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for about three months. New data from a survey of 1,070 ...
Reuters

Trump Media considers spinning off Truth Social into public company, reports wider annual loss

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O), opens new tab, founded by U.S. President Donald Trump, is considering spinning off its social media platform Truth Social into a publicly ...
CNBC

A 'quiet revolution': Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...
Forbes

Why Banning Social Media Isn’t The Right Answer For America’s Kids

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Castrucci is the president & CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
The Atlantic

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
New Scientist

Does limiting social media help teens? We'll finally get some evidence

A world-first study will test whether reducing the time teenagers spend on social media really does improve their mental health. But the results aren’t due until mid-2027, by which time further ...
Tampa Bay Times

Creative Loafing sold to Tampa group

Christopher Spata is an enterprise reporter covering Floridians and culture. He can be reached at cspata@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber ...