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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 ...
A social media influencer who was sentenced to seven months behind bars two years ago for posting anti-Hillary Clinton memes that federal prosecutors deemed “election interference” had his conviction ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday unanimously overturned the 2023 conviction for pro-Trump influencer Douglass Mackey, who was found guilty of conspiracy against rights for spreading voting ...
Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer who was sentenced to prison for posting an anti-Hillary Clinton meme, had his conviction overturned. The post Man Sentenced to Prison for Hillary Clinton ...
The account was at the center of Mackey's case as it was the account through which he posted a meme jokingly encouraging supporters of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their votes ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a right-wing influencer’s conviction for spreading misinformation online about ways to vote in the 2016 presidential election in an attempt to stifle ...
Douglass Mackey, 34, was sentenced to seven months behind bars after he used his Twitter handle, Ricky Vaughn, to posted fake ads telling Hillary Clinton supporters they could vote by text.
Douglass Mackey, who went by the name of "Ricky Vaughn" online, was accused of purposely spreading disinformation online in an effort to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton back in the 2016 election.
Douglass Mackey used this image of Charlie Sheen as his Twitter avatar when he posted the memes that eventually led to his arrest and conviction. Twitter.com. CAROLINE McCAUGHEY Published: Mar. 18, ...
Douglass Mackey, who the feds say went by the Twitter name Ricky Vaughan, was allegedly a prominent anonymous anti-Semite, racist and Trump-booster online before the 2016 election.
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 ...