Douglas Mackey's Meme-Related Prison Sentence Halted By Federal Court

Dec 04, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    32% Moderately Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    90% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms, 'oh I could text my vote for Hillary Clinton.'"
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-14% Liberal
"Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after the 2016 election."
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14% Conservative
"Vote from Home, and Text 'Hillary' to 59925."
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-6% Liberal
"So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms, 'oh I could text my vote for Hillary Clinton.'"
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-18% Liberal
"One image showed a black woman standing in front of an African Americans for Hillary sign and said, Avoid the Line."
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-20% Liberal
"Hillary Clinton reportedly celebrated the arrest, saying Mackey's meme went from what you would consider free speech ... to ruing a very deliberate effort to mislead people about where and how to vote."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to disseminate fraudulent messages which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"A federal court on Monday halted the prison sentence for Douglas Mackey, who was convicted earlier this year of election interference for posting memes that mocked Hillary Clinton voters to cast their ballot via text during the 2016 presidential election."
Negative
-48% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms, 'oh I could text my vote for Hillary Clinton.'

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