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> Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to dissemina
by system16 3y ago
> Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid.
Tricking people into throwing away their vote by casting it through invalid methods is a lot more than "tweeting a meme."
- bko 3y agoThe vote by text for someone I don't like thing is a meme. I've seen it 100 times in reddit. Do you think it was never tweeted by anyone else and widely disseminated? I think the platforms scrubbed the meme off the sites but I'm positive I've seen it on Reddit front page and Twitter a lot
- r2_pilot 3y ago(Dis)Information can be a crime. https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/election-crimes-and-security https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...
- bko 3y agoSo can numbers. What's your point? Do you think it's right to throw people in jail arbitrarily? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- nh23423fefe 3y agoCrime is ok if its top text bottom text? Crime is ok if lots of people join in and crime with you?
- Smoosh 3y agoMore like “crime is OK if it is done by my people, and when the harms are to ‘other’ people”.