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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Episode 227: The Posting to Prison Pipeline feat Michael Edison Hayden
Description: Usually, telling lies on the internet is Constitutionally protected.
But what happens when it’s not? What happens when you post and meme so hard and so maliciously that you go far outside the realm of protected speech and wind up in a federal prison. That’s the story of a 33-year-old man named Douglass Mackey, who operated a few Twitter accounts under the name Rickey Vaughn. Using these accounts he spread Pizzagate lies, racist tropes, and also messages deliberately designed to mislead people into giving up their right to vote. On May 31st, Douglass Mackey was convicted of Election Inte...