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Conservative Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference
mystery-ak:
Conservative Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference
Alana Mastrangelo 31 Mar 2023
Conservative social media influencer Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, was convicted of election interference in the 2016 presidential race after posting a satirical meme on Twitter.
Mackey, who is being accused of trying to “deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” was convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of “Conspiracy Against Rights,” the federal government announced.
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https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1641907970547097603
The conservative meme maker is now facing a maximum of 10 years in prison.
“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” United States Attorney Breon Peace said on Friday.
“Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote,” Peace added.
In 2016, Mackey’s Twitter account under the name Ricky Vaughn had roughly 58,000 followers. He posted satirical memes telling people they could vote for a candidate (apparently Hillary Clinton) via text message.
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/31/conservative-social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-convicted-of-election-interference/
Right_in_Virginia:
BREAKING: NYC jury finds Douglass Mackey GUILTY in first-ever meme trial after making memes that disparaged Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election
The Post Millennial, Mar 31, 2023
Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, has been found guilty on charges of election interference by a federal court in the Eastern District of New York.
The charges stem from a meme Mackey posted on Twitter in 2016, jokingly encouraging supporters of Hillary Clinton to vote by text
The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, despite being unable to provide evidence that anyone was deceived by the meme. Mackey argued that he was simply trying to create a viral meme, and that other Clinton supporters had posted similar memes encouraging Trump supporters to vote by text without consequence.
An expert witness for the defense withdrew from the trial after being contacted by a reporter from the SPLC.
Federal prosecutors claimed that Mackey worked with fellow meme makers to create the Twitter posts and make them as real as possible.
"This wasn’t about changing votes. This was about vaporizing votes, making them disappear," said Assistant US Attorney Turner Buford.
"The number was real and set up to receive incoming messages," he explained. "The release of these fake campaign ads was timed to flood the internet before Election Day."
Mackey posted the memes on November 1, a week before the election, and Frisch said that the meme’s message was "ludicrous to anyone with a basic knowledge of how presidential elections work," the New York Daily Mail reported.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-nyc-jury-finds-douglass-mackey-guilty-in-first-ever-meme-trial-after-making-memes-that-disparaged-hillary-clinton-in-the-2016-election
mountaineer:
This is insanity.
--- Quote ---Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Douglass Mackey to APPEAL verdict to US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
A NYC court found him guilty of making memes disparaging Hillary supporters
The Biden Admin wants to jail him for up to 10 years
Legal fund -> http://MemeDefenseFund.com
6:45 PM · Mar 31, 2023
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Right_in_Virginia:
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Sharing memes is election interference but arresting the opposition's lead candidate is not election interference
5:32 PM · Mar 31, 2023
bigheadfred:
NYC jury finds the First Amendment to be null and void.
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