3 Ms for kids and social media

Good morning. Salt Lake City will have a high of 46° and a low of 26°.

Twenty years ago today, the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics began, and we've gathered some of the most memorable moments captured by Deseret News photojournalists to mark the anniversary.

In more recent Olympic news, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva made history on Monday by being the first woman to land two quadruple jumps at an Olympics. But it's her short program routine that I can't stop thinking about.

Also on our mind today: Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai announces her retirement, experts offer advice on dealing with pandemic burnout and Latter-day Saint leaders support Arizona's new gay rights bill.

Utah poll: Who’s responsible for monitoring kids’ social media use?

A sexually explicit video was being shared on social media platforms among students at one Granite School District high school in December, prompting the question: Who is responsible for monitoring kids’ social media use? Government? Schools? Parents?

A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll found that 73% of Utahns who responded believe the responsibility falls to parents.

Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, founder and CEO of Digital Respons-Ability, a Utah research-based provider of digital citizenship education, recommends a “three Ms” approach to social media use: model, manage and monitor.

Model a healthy digital lifestyle for their children by using technology appropriately.
Manage personal information and accounts for young children.
Continue to monitor their activity when children grow older and start managing their own accounts.

What Utah Republicans have to say about the RNC’s idea of ‘legitimate political discourse’

The Republican National Committee censured Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in a “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” on the bipartisan committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

Rep. John Curtis: "I’d also like to be clear that I do not consider the violence we saw on Jan 6 as ‘legitimate political discourse.’"

Senate candidate Becky Edwards: "The dismissal of these acts as anything less than harmful ignores the impact that day will have on our democracy for generations to come."

Congress candidate Jake Hunsaker: "Those who politicize or oppose the legitimate work of the committee stand in direct opposition to the cause of freedom and the survival of our democracy."

Senate candidate Ally Isom: "At a time when the Republican Party should focus on solving the tough issues of today, it’s maddening to see so much time wasted in dialogue that only feeds political theater, divisiveness and finger-pointing."

Sen. Mitt Romney: “Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost."

Rep. Chris Stewart: “There is no interpretation of their behavior that can be considered ‘legitimate political discourse.’ It is counterproductive and disingenuous to deny their wrongdoing."

Rep. Blake Moore did not have a comment, and Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Burgess Owens did not respond to the Deseret News' request for comment.

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COVID

Why rapid tests for COVID-19 may not return to state testing sites in Utah (Deseret News)
COVID-19 infection linked to rise in serious pregnancy complications, U. study finds (KSL.com)
Feeling pandemic burnout? Here’s advice from mental health experts (KUER)

Faith

Latter-day Saint leaders support Arizona’s new gay rights bill. Here’s what they’ve said on the issue in the past (Deseret News)
Hundreds commemorate pioneers leaving Nauvoo as they retrace steps to frozen Mississippi River (Church News)
New commissioner of church education to deliver first BYU devotional on Tuesday (Deseret News)

Northern Utah

Utah fire district service suspended amid accusations of firefighter insubordination (KSL.com)
How long will the inversion last in northern Utah? (The Salt Lake Tribune 🔒)

The West

Grand Canyon, Yellowstone or Zion: Which is now the West's most-visited national park? (KSL.com)

The Nation

Booze is back on most U.S. airline menus and flight attendants are ‘outraged’ (Deseret News)
Report: National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago (Deseret News)
Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines have decided to merge (Deseret News)

The World

Australia will reopen its borders for tourists who are ‘double vaccinated’ (Deseret News)
What you need to know about Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star (Deseret News)
Israeli and Palestinian figures propose a plan for an independent state of Palestine (NPR)

Trending

How this Harvard student created her own ‘Korean Disney princess’ and went viral (Deseret News)
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Opinion: Is staging Super Bowl on Saturday such a far-fetched idea?

A high school student in Florida has proposed just such a change and has drawn a surprising amount of attention for it. Frank Ruggeri, an 18-year-old from Palm Bay, Florida, has circulated a petition online to have the game moved up a day.

It sounds like a radical idea — like moving Christmas to the 24th — but more than 120,000 people have signed the petition (Roger Goodell is not one of them).