U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss the indictment charging social media influencer Douglass Mackey with election interference, ruling that the question of whether Mackey’s tweets were satire is best left to a jury.

Mackey, who tweeted using the name Ricky Vaughn, was arrested in January 2021 and charged with conspiring to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive people of their right to vote.