Upper East Sider Outed As Prominent White Nationalist: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A white nationalist social media star deemed more influential than the Drudge Report, Michael Bloomberg and Chelsea Clinton during the 2016 presidential election has been outed as a resident of the Upper East Side, according to reports.

"Ricky Vaughn" — whose now-deactivated social media accounts dished out alt-right talking points to tens of thousands of followers — is actually Douglass Mackey of Carnegie Hill, the Huffington Post first reported. The prominent white nationalist's identity was revealed this week by Paul Nehlen — another alt-right figure running to primary Speaker of the House Paul Ryan — on the social media site Gab, the Huffington Post reported.

As "Ricky Vaughn" — using the name and photo of Charlie Sheen's character in the "Major League" movie series — Mackey propagated conspiracies such as "Pizzagate," circulated anti-semitic memes and joined forces with other prominent alt-right figures such as Milo Yianoppolous and Mike Cernovich, the Huffington Post reported. Mackey's first Twitter handle @Ricky_Vaughn99 was shut down in 2016, after which he became active on the handle @RapinBill.

The MIT Media Lab named Ricky Vaughn the 107th biggest influencer in the 2016 election. He ranked higher than the social media arms of the New York Times' politics section, NBC News and CBS News.

In real life, Mackey is a Middlebury-educated Vermonter who first moved to Brooklyn in 2012 to take a job with a consulting firm, according to the report. Voting records indicate that Mackey moved into a Lexington Avenue apartment in the Carnegie Hill area of the Upper East Side by the time he voted in 2016, according to the report. Since reports of Mackey's identify have been revealed, he has scrubbed all of his real social media profiles from the internet, the Huffington Post reported.

Mackey's case isn't the first time a prominent white nationalist has been outed as an Upper East Sider. In 2017, Neo-Nazi personality "Mike Enoch" was revealed to be neighborhood resident Michael Peinovich. Peinovich, who ran anti-semitic website "The Right Stuff" and podcast "The Daily Shoah," was active in organizing the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Read the full Huffington Post report here.

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