https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...paign-n1255864In September 2016, Mackey's groups turned to creating memes that misled potential voters about how they would be able to cast votes, creating memes that falsely claimed that supporters could cast their votes by posting on Facebook or Twitter or by voting through text messages. According to the complaint, 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted their votes to the number that was provided.
"There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote," Seth DuCharme, the acting U.S. attorney for Eastern New York, said in a news release. "With Mackey's arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
She's not under arrest, for some reason
Someone had to be first, I guess.
Karrin is aggrieved.
It’s a parody video. Totally serious and meant to harm or suppress the vote.
it hardly matters who got dinged this time, we all just got put on notice that election related trolling can result in federal jail time.
Neither should be arrested. If he has even a halfass decent lawyer, this will get dropped.
I don't know anything about this sort of case, so I couldn't really say. How did you acquire your own sense of confidence about it?
Could be wrong here but satire or anything done for comedic purposes is protected under the law?
Comedy in plain text doesn’t quite have the same effect. Not sure if this guy just went on Facebook and wrote misinfo.
"Ricky Vaughn" didn't come out of nowhere.
More influence than NBC news and drudge. How embarrassing.
Never heard of him, tbh
blast from the past you're keen to minimize, for whatever reason.
Darrin thinks ignorance is a vaccine.
LMAO
Karrin hates comedy.
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