Just ask Douglass Mackey. Mackey became a lightning-rod topic when, in the lead-up to the 2016 general election between Trump and then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, he made a joking social ...

Back in 2016, a man named Douglass Mackey, tweeting under the name “Ricky Vaughn,” repeatedly directed messages to Black voters encouraging them to vote by text for Hillary Clinton.

Douglass Mackey, aka "Ricky Vaughn," was charged by the federal government with one count of conspiracy to interfere with the right to vote in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 for using social media ...

The executive order highlighted the case of pro-Trump memesmith Douglass Mackey. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted Mackey and convicted him of “election interference” for posting a fake ad that told ...

Eastern District prosecutors won a guilty verdict in 2023 of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ads telling Hillary Clinton supporters they could vote in the 2016 election by ...