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Twitter user arrested for allegedly disseminating fraudulent messages about voting

( January 27, 2021, 18:43 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Federal agents arrested a man who used social media to spread memes with misleading information about voting during the 2016 election. Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, used Twitter to spread images suggesting that voters could file ballots via social media or by texting to a mobile short code. “There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, acting US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where Mackey has been criminally charged.Statement in full follows. Also see attached document:...

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