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A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ...
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’s posts in 2016 falsely advertised text voting for Hillary Clinton. Appeals court judges said prosecutors had ...
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, the social media influencer who was sentenced to prison for posting an anti-Hillary Clinton meme, had his ...
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.
Douglass Mackey, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who used Twitter to disseminate false information to redirect would-be voters of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election ...
Douglass Mackey was sentenced on Wednesday to seven months in prison after he was found guilty of using social media to spread misinformation about voting in the 2016 election. Mackey, a supporter ...
During the 2016 election season, Douglass Mackey was a prolific far-right Twitter user under the name "Ricky Vaughn." Mackey frequently posted pro-Trump memes and commentary to his 58,000 followers.
A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 ...
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. ... Mackey’s “Ricky Vaughn” Twitter profile picture ...
Douglass Mackey was convicted Friday after federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., said he plotted with others on Twitter to trick supporters of Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election.