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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...