Ashton Pittman

News Editor @MSFreePress • Tips: [email protected] • Since this site is now run by a state-aligned fascist, I have left X for bluer skies.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Find me on Threads here: https://t.co/46DKochtyK (my most used)

Find me on BlueSky here: https://t.co/1vLETY34KL

Find me on Mastodon here: https://t.co/Arl9bYYYAE

I also have a Substack that I may start posting to. You can sign up for it here: https://t.co/PlztEHgmQq

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

@CathyJoeGPT @maddow @MSNOWNews @MSFreePress @MSTODAYnews @sunherald @clarionledger @WXXV25 @WLOX @bluesky I can help you with how to confuse using bluesky -- it's pretty easy. Email me -- ashton.e.pittman [at] gmail

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

NEW: Mississippi's social media age-verification law has forced Blu-S-y to block Mississippi IP addresses.

Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom.

My new editorial: https://t.co/WQ8tJe8nHs

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

I have not posted here in months, and do not expect to resume posting here regularly.

But since many of our MFP followers can no longer reach us on the other place, I'm posting this here to make sure as many as possible see it.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

NEW: Mississippi's social media age-verification law has forced Blu-S-y to block Mississippi IP addresses.

Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom.

My new editorial: https://t.co/WQ8tJe8nHs

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

@VABVOX My thread on Victoria:
https://t.co/pZssiUckI7

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

@VABVOX Thank you for letting us know. She will be so missed.

I don't use Twitter anymore, but I did write a thread in memory of Victoria on the other place. Link is next.

[Nick Judin @nickjudin]

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. Only a day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four.

Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee, headed southwest.

[Nick Judin @nickjudin]

My latest @MSFreePress: the detention of Kasper Eriksen.

https://t.co/73UVVT2Roq

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Follow our whole MFP team here: https://t.co/nnexedax0p

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Amid grief over his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form.

He thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April.

Now imprisoned, he faces deportation over a 10-year-old error.
https://t.co/KEPlPCnw5f

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

I only come on Twitter now to share our most vital stories, usually once every few months. This one by Nick Judin is such a story.

If you want to keep in touch, you can find me, our newsroom and our reporters where the skies are bleu (and a few other places).

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Find me on Threads here: https://t.co/46DKochtyK (my most used)

Find me on BlueSky here: https://t.co/1vLETY34KL

Find me on Mastodon here: https://t.co/Arl9bYYYAE

I also have a Substack that I may start posting to. You can sign up for it here: https://t.co/PlztEHgmQq

[Mississippi Free Press @MSFreePress]

"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 coop," Ashton Pittman writes.

Here’s why the Mississippi Free Press will no longer post on X: https://t.co/gOEJvam50a

[Richard Tofel @dicktofel]

“Twitter’s time as a useful tool for sharing journalism has passed.” https://t.co/WyoVYAdJPr

[Jeremy on film @JeremyBond_film]

The “free press” is rightfully dropping X/Twitter. I’ve held on here for now but have joined Bluesky and created an account there parallel to this one at https://t.co/UfLd50q9FQ.
If you’re reading this, I’d love to stay connected. Let me know if you’re on Bluesky (or elsewhere).

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

We understand that some believe we should stay on X as a beacon of honest reporting, but it’s a light few see now anyway due to algorithmic suppression.

Staying would only legitimize the smorgasbord of unabashed hate and misinformation that X serves up.
https://t.co/S3xaXADv5H

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

As a news organization, we have deep concerns about Earth’s richest man controlling the flow of information while presiding over the dismemberment of the government in ways that often appear to benefit him.

Why @MSFreePress will no longer post on X: https://t.co/S3xaXAE2Vf

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

That said, you can find me, MFP and our reporting in other places—particularly ones where the skies are bleu.

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

Find me on Threads here: https://t.co/46DKochtyK (my most used)

Find me on BlueSky here: https://t.co/1vLETY34KL

Find me on Mastodon here: https://t.co/Arl9bYYYAE

I also have a Substack that I may start posting to. You can sign up for it here: https://t.co/PlztEHgmQq

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

As a news organization, we have deep concerns about Earth’s richest man controlling the flow of information while presiding over the dismemberment of the government in ways that often appear to benefit him.

Why @MSFreePress will no longer post on X: https://t.co/S3xaXAE2Vf

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

We understand that some believe we should stay on X as a beacon of honest reporting, but it’s a light few see now anyway due to algorithmic suppression.

Staying would only legitimize the smorgasbord of unabashed hate and misinformation that X serves up.
https://t.co/S3xaXADv5H

[Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman]

News outlets—especially independent news outlets—you don't have to stay tethered to this place.

The Mississippi Free Press, after three months, now has nearly 55,000 followers at the B-L-U-E place.

That's double the audience it took to build 5 years here.

My point? 1/