Episode 227: The Posting to Prison Pipeline feat Michael Edison Hayden

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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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 Interference in the 2016 presidential race after a one week trial. To better understand this case we spoke to someone who has been covering it for years: Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center. We chat about Douglass Mackey’s background, the crime he was found guilty of committing, and what it means for the future of online disinformation campaigns. We also discuss the trial’s involvement of “Microchip,” a notorious troll who is currently working as a federal informant. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Michael Edison Hayden: https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Editing by Corey Klotz.

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0:00.0	Welcome listener to chapter 227 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the posting to Prison
0:21.9	Pipeline episode, as always we are your host Jake Rakotanski, and Travis Vue.
0:27.1	Now we've talked a lot on this podcast about disinformation, and usually telling lies
0:32.7	on the internet is cost-tutially protected.
0:35.0	But what happens when it's not?
0:36.7	What happens when he posts and beams so hard and so maliciously that you go far outside
0:41.4	the realm of protected speech and wind up in a federal prison?
0:45.0	That's the story of barring the unlikely case of a successful appeal of a 33 year old
0:49.7	man named Douglas Mackie who operate a few Twitter accounts under the name Ricky Vaughn.
0:55.0	Following these accounts he spread, piece-to-gate lies, racist tropes, and also messages deliberately
0:59.9	designed to mislead people into giving up their right to vote.
1:03.5	On May 31st Douglas Mackie was convicted of election interference in the 2016 presidential
1:08.6	election after a one week trial.
1:11.1	He faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison for that conviction though it remains
1:15.1	to be seen what his actual sentence will be.
1:17.5	Today we're going to be talking to Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law
1:22.0	Center about the Douglas Mackie case, what he did, and what this means for the future
1:26.1	of online trolling.
1:27.5	But before we get to the main topic of the show, I feel like I have to address the recent
1:32.1	reporting concerning Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
1:35.7	Oh yeah, what's going on with this?
1:38.0	So yeah, so an investigation by ProPublica, really great investigation, found that Thomas
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