In March, a federal jury convicted Douglass Mackey, a Florida social media influencer, for participating in a conspiracy to deprive people of their constitutional right to vote — not simply because he created a meme.
In 2016, Mackey had an audience of nearly 60,000 followers on Twitter, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A 2016 MIT Media Labprosecutors made the case
that from September to November 2016, Mackey"conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s supporters to ‘vote’ via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid.
Mackey"tweeted an image depicting an African American woman standing in front of an ‘African Americans for Hillary’ sign," according to."The ad stated: ‘Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,’ ‘Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,’ and ‘Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.’" He also shared a meme with similar messages written in Spanish; it used"the same distinctive font employed by the campaign of the Candidate,""included a copy of the logo of the Candidate’s campaign" and had a link to the campaign’s website, according to the arrest warrantTwitter just informed me that attempting to disenfranchise voters is not a violation of their Terms of Service.
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