#DouglassMackey, who spread #disinformation on #Trump’s behalf to trick people into not voting for #HillaryClinton in the 2016 presidential #election #sentenced to 7 months in #prison.
#Racism #WhiteSupremacy #Conspiracy #RightToVote #VoterSuppression #ElectionInterference #MediaLiteracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/nyregion/douglass-mackey-trump-sentencing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Although Microchip’s identity remains secret, he showed up in court on 2023-03-22 unmasked.
Everyone in court that day, including Douglass Mackey, Mackey’s family, the jury and the reporters present, saw Microchip’s face.
Online, Microchip favored an avatar featuring an impish young man wearing a MAGA hat and raising an ice cream cone.
The real Microchip is a middle-aged man.
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"For years, three central facets of right-wing politics in the United States — the aggressive online community, the media juggernaut and the leader of the far right — had run at or past the boundaries without issue. Then, over an exceptional 24-hour period, each stumbled. Mackey will be sentenced. Fox will go to trial. Trump will be arraigned."
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/01/over-24-hours-rumblings-reckoning-right/
#Trump #FoxNews #DouglassMackey #Accountability #USPolitics #USA
It only took SEVEN YEARS.
Lovely.
Democracy dies while the Justice Department and the lower courts take their time.
Will he appeal? Likely. I can imagine what this SCOTUS would say. "well, it's only a crime if it costs our white guy votes, otherwise it's just free speech/political engagement/his business, you know?"
Right-wing Twitter #troll #DouglassMackey better known by the handle #RickyVaughn, has been #convicted by a federal jury of interfering in the #2016Election. #Politics #Justice
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