Good morning! Still looks like we’re in for more snow:
🌨️ 21 – 29° in Logan | ❄️ 50% chance ⚠️
🌨️ 28 – 34° in Salt Lake City | ❄️ 70% chance ⚠️
⛅ 28 – 42° in St. George | 💧 10% chance
⚠️ Winter weather advisory
It’s cookie season! Every year, I bake with my mom and siblings, and we have a mountain of cookies to get through by the end of the season. The stomachache isn’t great, but the time spent in the kitchen bonding with family is wonderful. (And who am I kidding, the cookies are great too!)
Reply to this email with your favorite holiday cookie recipes, and I might put them in tomorrow’s newsletter.
What the reaction to the ‘Twitter files’ reveals about the media
After last week’s revelation that Twitter was actively limiting the reach of certain accounts — particularly those that were right leaning or center-left — the mainstream press’ reaction was to “collectively shrug,” as Suzanne Bates puts it.
This comes at a time when trust in mainstream media institutions is at an all-time low. Of Gallup poll respondents, only 34% say they have a great deal of trust in the media, but 66% say they don’t have much trust or none at all.
“But if media outlets want to be the source of news for more than just one side of the ideological divide,” Bates writes, “they’re going to have to find a way to talk about issues like this.
Monday morning, the Utah Department of Transportation's TikTok account, which boasted nearly 75,000 followers, disappeared. This is due to an executive order from Gov. Spencer Cox prohibiting state agencies and employees from downloading the app or visiting the website.
In a statement, the Governor said, "China's access to data collected by TikTok presents a threat to our cybersecurity," he said. "As a result, we've deleted our TikTok account and ordered the same on all state-owned devices. We must protect Utahns and make sure that the people of Utah can trust the state's security systems.”
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