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 ...

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

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

Douglass Mackey, 36, posted satirical memes of a fake ad in 2016 falsely indicating voters could stay home and simply text ...

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a social media influencer who used Twitter posts that ...

A federal appeals court has overturned a self-styled right-wing propagandist's conviction for spreading falsehoods on social media in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential ...

While Douglass Mackey tweeted memes to encourage Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by text, the government failed to prove he did it as part of a conspiracy, an appeals court said.

A man found guilty of conspiring to injure citizens’ voting rights after he posted memes on Twitter suggesting Hillary Clinton supporters could vote by text message in the 2016 US presidential ...

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

Court Exonerates Douglass Mackey in Memes Case** In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of Douglass Mackey, a soc ...