Bear - 2021-01-30 8:56 AM
I'm not going to sit here and read though this bullish!t to try and determine what the guy did wrong, so why don't you just tell us. Obviously, this can't be just about memes. I'm not real familiar with this. The last thing I want to do is read something from Vanity Fair this morning. I'd rather slather honey on my ass and sit on a fire ant hill.
Well Bear - of course we would not want your ass to get chaffed or biten. But the honey could help sooth both.
Basically in a nutshell, this guy and other co-consperaters designed and implimented an elaborate scheme to use twitter and facebook to spread false memes. They have records of lots of messages back and forth about what memes to make up to trigger and stear certain voting groups. Apparently this guy was ranked the 107 highest social influencer of the time, so what he put out really got a lot of attention and shared.
While he spread a lot of false things out there, the one that sparked the most outrage and issue was when he launched a campagn to make people believe that they could vote for thier canidate on Facebook or on twitter, or by a text instead of having to actually go to the polls. It sounds so silly that anyone would fall for that, but apparently this was no small time hoodlem living in momma's basement, but a massive, coordinated effort.
As i understand it, the FBI considered it serious enough that he is facing charges for illegally attempting to interfere with the 2016 election.
Apparently he is also quite the peach of a person, but to each their own since it's not illegal to have racist views as long as you don't act on them "..... Mackey previously advocated for the formation of white-only communities, condemned interracial relationships as an attack on “our unique culture and racial heritage,” and repeatedly pushed the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory suggesting that Jews are puppet masters using the media to control society. In 2016, Mackey became fully committed to his support for the Trump campaign and shared xenophobic content aligned with Trump’s call for a universal ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Despite Mackey’s later attempts to distance himself from white nationalism, he maintained that he was a self-described member of the “alt-right” not long before HuffPost revealed his identity in 2018."
I'm no legal scholar, but I'm guessing they had think long and hard to come up with charges.
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