Does the First Amendment cover deliberately deceptive speech?

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 3, 2023)

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Friday’s conviction of Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” by a New York federal jury of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights for using deliberately deceptive internet memes in an attempt “to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016…