Situational Awareness: A New York City federal court has convicted a man for sharing a "meme" on social media which the Justice Department said was a "scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote." In 2016 the man posted an image on Twitter that contained the text "Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text 'Hillary' to 59925".

Debrief: The federal government chose not to prosecute the case for 4 years but then arrested the man in late January of 2021, days after President Biden was inaugurated. There doesn't appear to be any other action by the man aside from the sharing of the meme which is claimed to be "election interference".

》Sources: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-nyc-jury-finds-douglass-mackey-guilty-in-first-ever-meme-trial-after-making-memes-that-disparaged-hillary-clinton-in-the-2016-election | https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-convicted-election-interference-2016 | https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/31/far-right-influencer-convicted-in-voter-suppression-scheme-00090042

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