Douglass Mackey tried to trick Black people into ... Prosecutors have said that Mr. Mackey, who went to Middlebury College in Vermont and said he lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan ...

A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty ... is to drive up turnout with non-college whites, and limit black turnout.” Twitter suspended Mackey at least twice after he ...

Douglass Mackey, who posted under the alias Ricky Vaughn, was convicted in March of the charge of conspiracy against rights after a trial in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors said Mackey ...

Douglass Mackey, 33, of West Palm Beach, Florida, was convicted in Brooklyn federal court before Judge Ann M. Donnelly after a one-week trial. NEW YORK — A self-styled far-right propagandist ...

Douglass Mackey, who went by the name of "Ricky Vaughn" online, was accused of purposely spreading disinformation online in an effort to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton back in the 2016 election.

Social media influencer Douglass Mackey was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for interfering with the 2016 election. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that Mackey ...

Mackey was 26 years old in 2015 when he began posting on Twitter under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn," amassing 51,000 followers on Twitter and ranking among the "most influential voices" posting ...

It’s not illegal to lie on Twitter — but Douglass Mackey’s tweets about voting by text went too far for a Brooklyn jury. It’s not illegal to lie on Twitter — but Douglass Mackey’s ...

In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Douglass Mackey posted what looked like campaign ads on his social media account, according to federal prosecutors. But the ads ...