#douglassmackey — Public Fediverse posts
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... better known as #Weev, and then still posting under his handle @rabite, was a key early player in professionalizing that effort,👈even as he was serving as Webmaster for the rightwing #DailyStormer."
#Wheeler also has related articles in her #DouglassMackey archive on the trial exhibits and chatroom logs themselves. You can explore those here:
https://emptywheel.net/tag/douglass-mackey/
Notable pieces in that series include trial-based documentation of the actual chatroom coordination.
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...2024):
👉"What we're seeing is the #WarRoom in which #DouglassMackey, #Microchip, and #DonJr collaborated to hijack mainstream news narratives together in 2016, integrated more closely with the campaign.👈
It's not surprising #Trump did that. Even in 2016, #BakedAlaska described 👉a Trump HQ Slack that was "coordinat[ing] efforts."👈
Remember: 👉#AndrewAuernheimer, @skykiss
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#Mackey/#Microchip → #DonJr.'s Team**
The structure was:
👉**#AndrewAuernheimer (#weev)** — described by #Wheeler as **"a key early player in professionalizing that effort"** — trained #DouglassMackey and #Microchip starting in 2015.👈
**Mackey and Microchip** — who had been "groomed" by weev in hashtag hijacking, virality manipulation, and "psychological warfare" techniques — then **coordinated directly with Don Jr.** in a **#Trump HQ Slack** (per her citation of the campaign's own @skykiss
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#DouglassMackey, who spread #disinformation on #Trump’s behalf to trick people into not voting for #HillaryClinton in the 2016 presidential #election #sentenced to 7 months in #prison.
#Racism #WhiteSupremacy #Conspiracy #RightToVote #VoterSuppression #ElectionInterference #MediaLiteracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/nyregion/douglass-mackey-trump-sentencing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Douglass Mackey Sentenced to 7 Months for Conspiring to Violate 18 USC 241 https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/10/18/douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-for-conspiring-to-violate-18-usc-241/ #RWNJ #GOPTraitors #HillaryClinton #DouglassMackey
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"For years, three central facets of right-wing politics in the United States — the aggressive online community, the media juggernaut and the leader of the far right — had run at or past the boundaries without issue. Then, over an exceptional 24-hour period, each stumbled. Mackey will be sentenced. Fox will go to trial. Trump will be arraigned."
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/01/over-24-hours-rumblings-reckoning-right/#Trump #FoxNews #DouglassMackey #Accountability #USPolitics #USA
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CW: U.S. Politics, electoral interference
It only took SEVEN YEARS.
Lovely.
Democracy dies while the Justice Department and the lower courts take their time.
Will he appeal? Likely. I can imagine what this SCOTUS would say. "well, it's only a crime if it costs our white guy votes, otherwise it's just free speech/political engagement/his business, you know?"
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Right-wing Twitter #troll #DouglassMackey better known by the handle #RickyVaughn, has been #convicted by a federal jury of interfering in the #2016Election. #Politics #Justice