> There is no crime in telling people to ‘vote this Wednesday.’ There is no crime of ‘misinformation.’ The Department of Justice would disagree with you: “Soc

> There is no crime in telling people to ‘vote this Wednesday.’ There is no crime of ‘misinformation.’ The Department of Justice would disagree with you: “Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign” [1] Some guy tweeted in 2016 encouraging Hillary Clinton supporters to ‘Vote from Home’ by sending an SMS to a certain number. For this and other tweets, he was charged with violating 18 USC 241, which prohibits “conspir[ing] to injure, oppress, [..] any person [..] in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States”, where the right in question was the right to vote. With the justice system being as slow as it is, the indictment only happened in 2021 and the case is still pending at the district court level. [2] His lawyers argue that his actions were protected by the First Amendment; this is a novel legal question with no Supreme Court precedent on point. [3] [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/social-media-influencer-charged-election-interference-stemming-voter-disinformation-campaign https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/social-media-influencer-charg... [2] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59249282/united-states-v-mackey/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59249282/united-states-... [3] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/douglass-mackey-ricky-vaughn-memes-first-amendment https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/douglass-ma...