{"id":106640,"date":"2021-01-28T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=106640"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:27:07","slug":"conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=106640&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21023804345994-315x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2361029\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2361029\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2361029 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21023804345994-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2361029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; This Jan. 12, 2021, file photo shows a sign for the Department of Justice ahead of a news conference in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger\/Pool via AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 11:26 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, January 28, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Conservatives are asking questions regarding the recent indictment of a social media influencer over an election meme from 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice formally charged 31-year-old Douglas Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on social media, with conspiracy to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The West Palm Beach, Florida resident is facing 10 years behind bars for allegedly tweeting a photo one week before the 2016 election of a black woman in front of a sign that reads &#8220;African Americans for President Hillary&#8221; with a tagline encouraging Clinton supporters to vote from their phones via text message.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Justice Department appears to have turned a blind eye to a member of the left doing the exact same thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewYorkFBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NewYorkFBI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jY19uiN8vP\">https:\/\/t.co\/jY19uiN8vP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aj5auQVk1f\">pic.twitter.com\/aj5auQVk1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FBI (@FBI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI\/status\/1354563914005151744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/01\/hey-doj-found-another-one-liberal-reporter-tweeted-exact-message-2016-trump-supporter-indicted-today-video\/\">Gateway Pundit<\/a> first shared the resurfaced video of political comedian Kristina Wong in which she is telling President Trump&#8217;s supporters to vote by text on November 9. This date was, of course, the day after the actual election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheJusticeDept<\/a>! Have you seen this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aufQwrkDed\">https:\/\/t.co\/aufQwrkDed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1354547988778070018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservatives are calling on the Department of Justice to hold the same standards with members of the left as they do with the right, noting if Mackey can face federal charges for his meme then Wong should too.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mackey&#8217;s social media accounts have been suspended while the video of Wong remains online. Wong has now claimed that the video was purely satirical and had no effect on the results of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Many on the right are suggesting this is eerily similar to the disregard of election inquiries made by conservatives this year despite the exact same claims by the left being investigated following the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/solomon-fbi-misled-fisa-court-in-2017-to-continue-russia-hoax\/\"> Solomon: FBI misled FISA court in 2017 to continue Russia hoax<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 This Jan. 12, 2021, file photo shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181170,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21023804345994-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AP21023804345994-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}