Florida man charged with election interference for spreading disinformation, usually via memes

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'There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,' the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York said.

Douglass Mackey, a 31-year-old social media influencer who operated under the online alias"Ricky Vaughn," was charged with conspiring to spread disinformation designed to"deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote."

Mackey was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District. According to the Justice Department, he was taken into custody Wednesday and made a court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in the Southern District of Florida. While the criminal complaint did not explicitly name the candidates referenced in each meme, Mackey was revealed to be an avid Trump supporter and well-known figure in the"alt-right" movement by The Huffington Post in 2018.

 

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Anyone dumb enough to fall for these schemes, probably shouldn't be voting in the first place; we want an informed electorate making the decision who should lead us.

So on which side of the line being drawn does government propaganda fall? There doesn’t have to be a revolution because it look as if the government will eventually policy their way out of existence. That’s when the bank will finally foreclose, seize and auction it all away......

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