Conviction for Twitter Disinformation Scheme Undone on Appeal

A man found guilty of conspiring to injure citizens’ voting rights after he posted memes on Twitter suggesting Hillary Clinton supporters could vote by text message in the 2016 US presidential election won his appeal to undo his conviction.

There was insufficient evidence to prove that Douglass Mackey knowingly agreed to join a conspiracy, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Wednesday.

The government’s primary evidence of a conspiracy were messages from private groups on Twitter, now known as X, but it failed to show that Mackey participated in or even viewed any of the exchanges, the ...