From the time we launched the Mississippi Free Press at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly five years ago in March 2020, Twitter served as a vital tool for us to share our stories, build an audience and grow as a publication.
It made it easy to get potentially life-saving information to people—not only in Mississippi, but around the country and the world—in mere minutes. And Twitter allowed us to connect with everyday Mississippians as well as experts from here and all around who helped us tell better stories with deeper context. There are so many stories we never could have told if not for the connections we made on Twitter.
But that bird has flown the coup.
Twitter’s time as a useful tool for sharing journalism has passed. Now known as X and run by the richest man in the world, a platform that was once invaluable for journalists in a fast-moving news landscape has become a toxic wasteland. It is a platform where information that offends the powerful is suppressed, while a diverse cross-section of bigots and disinformation peddlers with blue checks rules the roost.
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Now, X’s owner, Elon Musk, is using his money and power to influence our government drastically as an unelected official in a role Congress hasn’t created. He is using this power to slash through our government, cutting vital services that protect Americans’ health and finances.
As he seeks to turn X into an “everything app” that includes money transfers, he has also sought to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Congress created the CFPB in 2010 to protect consumers against predatory practices in the financial sector in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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