Douglass Mackey’s posts in 2016 falsely advertised text voting for Hillary Clinton. Appeals court judges said prosecutors had ...

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

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

A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ...

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

A meme-maker who was prosecuted by the Biden administration for memes he posted online in 2016 has had his conviction ...

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

Free Speech Douglass Mackey's Vote-by-Text Meme Conviction Reversed, Citing Insufficient Evidence of Conspiracy Eugene Volokh | 7.9.2025 11:50 AM ...

A federal appeals court has overturned a self-styled right-wing propagandist’s conviction for spreading falsehoods on social ...

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.