The free speech legal implications of Douglass Mackey facing jail over voting memes

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Didi Rankovic

Posting “fraudulently misleading memes” – that’s what got an online “troll” to be found guilty by a jury, and why he could spend ten years in prison.

Legal experts, however, will wonder if the ruling is in line with First Amendment protections.

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