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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 ...
A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ...
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 ...
The account was at the center of Mackey's case as it was the account through which he posted a meme jokingly encouraging ...
Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer who was sentenced to prison for posting an anti-Hillary Clinton meme, had his ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a right-wing influencer’s conviction for spreading misinformation online about ...
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.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a social media influencer who used Twitter posts that ...
A meme-maker who was prosecuted by the Biden administration for memes he posted online in 2016 has had his conviction ...
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.
Mackey’s conviction stemmed from memes he posted urging Clinton supporters to ‘vote by text’ in 2016.