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a week to the day after joe biden was inaugurated, the fbi arrested a 31-year-old man, douglas mackey. according to a doj press release, he committed a serious crime. like flood reporting, he conspired to subvert the 2016 election. in a tweet, he suggested that it was possible it -- to vote for hillary clinton by text message. this act, claimed by -- was a "grave felony," comfortable by ten years in prison. it was claimed "misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote." this tweet confirm that douglas mackie had committed "vote theft." a criminal of his magnitude, he was handcuffed and brought to this florida judge, the same magistrate who authorized last week's raid on mar-a-lago. he was brought to jail. his arrest -- at the time, media coverage was relatively scant. reporters who covered it just moved on to something else after a press release. "the new york times" set the tone early by describing him as "a far right twitter troll," not a technical term. there is no agreed-upon meaning. it's lying, something that serious newspapers never include in news stories, but in t