FBI Arrests Prolific Racist Twitter Troll 'Ricky Vaughn' For 2016 Election Interference | HuffPost

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FBI Arrests Prolific Racist Twitter Troll 'Ricky Vaughn' For 2016 Election Interference | HuffPost

> HuffPost can also identify three anonymous co-conspirators named in the federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

> A notorious alt-right operative, Douglass Mackey, whom HuffPost unmasked in 2018 as Donald Trump’s most influential white nationalist Twitter troll, “Ricky Vaughn,” was arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday on federal election interference charges related to a disinformation campaign during the 2016 election.

> The charges demonstrate federal prosecutors’ newfound focus on the use of Twitter and other social media platforms to undermine elections and suppress the vote.

> Mackey allegedly conspired with four unnamed Twitter users to create and disseminate “memes” designed to dupe people, particularly Black and Latinx voters, into casting invalid votes by posting on Facebook or Twitter or sending a text message to a specified text code, according to the recently unsealed federal complaint.

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[–]bjam27 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Actual fascism

[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

US citizens should regard the FBI as an occupying foreign army.

[–]Tarrock 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's a domestic terror org that exists only to justify its own existence.

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

pretty sure he didn't make the memes, just distributed them. They arose from the depth of the chans

[–]hetisachoice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The r-word is just another racial slur at this point.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Donald Trump’s most influential white nationalist Twitter troll

The problem with this theory is that Trump hates Whites.

[–]BulbusBeanQueen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't let your meme's be dreams