Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign

A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.

Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York. He was taken into custody this morning in West Palm Beach and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida.

“According to the allegations in the complaint, the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote,” said Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This complaint underscores the department’s commitment to investigating and prosecuting those who would undermine citizens’ voting rights.”

“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

They are going after the little guy? What a bunch of cowards.

They need to get these idiots:

Its chilling as a photo, but it is who they are, liberal fascist oligarchs.

This described back in 2008, what was going to happen:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)

During Obama’s Arab Spring , especially in Egypt, Google, Facebook and Twitter were active in providing the platforms which resulted in the Muslim Brotherhood seizing power there and organizing the massive demonstrations and protests against Mubarak.

The movers for this on the ground were Muslim grad students from Libya, Syria , Egypt, Gaza and many other places, Hillary Clinton’s State Department conducted seminars and courses at various Universities that educated these students on the use of internet platforms to create the subversive networks which resulted in the chaos and deaths, which in Egypt were put down by the military. They lost in Egypt , Syria to the dictators and to the Russians who were acting to secure the soft underbelly of Russia from the millions of Muslim refugees that would have entered there through Crimea, which is why Putin annexed Crimea.Instead the Muslim refugee masses were forced to enter Europe. Libya was destroyed on a Progressive whim and a grift by Obama on NATO. The Great Man Made River , the greatest hydrology project in the modern era which led to massive food supply for the country was destroyed.

Yet no one really speaks of these disasters brought about by the liberal fascists of America as they plied their sordid politics throughout Africa and the Middle East.

Now these internet oligarchs ply their sordid trade here in America, and they are the greatest threat to our Liberty and Civil Rights this nation has ever faced in the modern era.

Chilling is exactly the right word. But it is a true descriptor as we surrender US infrastructure to China , encouraged by these oligarchs.

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