A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ...

The decision is a win for Douglass Mackey, a self-proclaimed "troll" who used his Twitter handle to spread false information ...

Douglass Mackey’s posts in 2016 falsely advertised text voting for Hillary Clinton. Appeals court judges said prosecutors had ...

The account was at the center of Mackey's case as it was the account through which he posted a meme jokingly encouraging ...

A social media influencer who was sentenced to seven months behind bars two years ago for posting anti-Hillary Clinton memes ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday unanimously overturned the 2023 conviction for pro-Trump influencer Douglass Mackey, who ...

A short excerpt from today's long decision in U.S. v. Mackey by Second Circuit Judge Debra Ann Livingston, joined by Judges Reena Raggi and Beth Robinson:. On November 1 and 2, 2016, Defendant ...

Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer who was sentenced to prison for posting an anti-Hillary Clinton meme, had his ...

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ordered a lower court to enter a judgment of acquittal for Douglass Mackey, finding that trial evidence failed to prove the government's claim ...

Mackey’s conviction stemmed from memes he posted urging Clinton supporters to ‘vote by text’ in 2016.

Douglass Mackey posted false memes that misled Democrats to vote for Clinton by text or social media, tricking about 5,000 people into doing so.