MEME STREAK! Twitter User Will Serve 7 Months for Sharing Meme During Election (This is Real!)

According to a report from The Daily Caller, Douglass Mackey, who ran an X (formerly “Twitter”) account of with 58,000 followers, will serve seven months in jail for sharing a meme.

Mackey was convicted in March and could have served up to ten years in jail…for meme sharing.

From The Daily Caller:

The meme that led to his conviction was a fake flier encouraging Clinton supporters to vote from home via text message.

“Avoid the line. Vote from home,” it stated. “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”

Small text at the bottom of the flier notes that voting by text is “not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii.”

Here is Douglass Mackey's tweet from the 2016 election that just got him 7 months in jail vs another tweet from a liberal activist during the same time that didn't get her 7 months in jail. https://t.co/1g7ADnD4g7 pic.twitter.com/BenA34PwHr

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 18, 2023

Prosecutors said that Mackey also belonged to private Twitter direct-message groups where he “coordinated” dissemination of misinformation “intended variously to provoke, mislead, and, in some cases, deceive voters in the 2016 presidential election” with others, according to the sentencing memo.

“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace said after Mackey’s conviction in March. “Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote.”

A misleading meme landed a man 7 months in jail https://t.co/lKRpdlfJ8E

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 18, 2023