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Can a person be convicted of a federal conspiracy solely by posting misleading political memes online, without ever having communicated or knowingly coordinated with their alleged co-conspirators?
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 ...
Douglass Mackey, 36, posted satirical memes of a fake ad in 2016 falsely indicating voters could stay home and simply text ...
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 ...