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Douglass Mackey, who was convicted of election interference after posting memes of Hilary Clinton under his alias Ricky Vaughn questioned whether the US is a 'free country'.
A Trump-supporting Twitter influencer who found guilty of conspiring to deprive citizens of their right to vote in the 2016 presidential election has been sentenced to seven months in jail.
Douglass Mackey was convicted by a federal jury “of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights” due to election memes that he created.
Douglass Mackey faces up to ten years in prison for Tweeting out racially targeted memes telling Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by text in 2016.
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The case, which addresses the question of whether disseminating internet disinformation during the 2016 election rose to the level of a crime, has been closely watched by both anti-extremist groups and right-wing politicians and pundits.