[system16]

> Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid.

Tricking people into throwing away their vote by casting it through invalid methods is a lot more than "tweeting a meme."

[bko]

The vote by text for someone I don't like thing is a meme. I've seen it 100 times in reddit. Do you think it was never tweeted by anyone else and widely disseminated? I think the platforms scrubbed the meme off the sites but I'm positive I've seen it on Reddit front page and Twitter a lot

[nh23423fefe]

Crime is ok if its top text bottom text? Crime is ok if lots of people join in and crime with you?

[Smoosh]

More like “crime is OK if it is done by my people, and when the harms are to ‘other’ people”.

[r2_pilot]

(Dis)Information can be a crime. https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...

[bko]

So can numbers. What's your point? Do you think it's right to throw people in jail arbitrarily?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number