Posobiec asked Mackey how he views Elon Musk's moves to make X, formerly known as Twitter, a platform that embraces freedom of speech.
Mackey said he finds it "very encouraging."
"If you're an American you believe in the First Amendment and freedom of expression," he stated, "it's very encouraging to have an open platform where the best ideas can rise to the top."
He also said he is a fan of the Community Notes Musk has implemented, intended to replace the partisan, left-leaning "fact-checkers" that were so prominent before Musk took the helm. He said that democratizing fact-checking and giving the people the power to disagree amongst themselves is "the spirit of America."
In the last couple of years, Mackey stated, the government as well as non-governmental organizations were attempting to create a sort of "third-party Ministry of Truth" through fact-checkers that was "an arm's length away from the federal government," just far enough that they could claim they were not being controlled by the Biden administration.
"The process of democracy is rough, it is messy," said Mackey. "And the government's job is not to step in and say this is true, this is false. That's just not what we do in America and I think it's really dangerous."
He remains encouraged that the courts will rule that the fact-checker system "is not American."
"We have separation of powers for a reason. I think that the courts need to step in, and if they don't, that's going to be a sign that we're we've crossed the Rubicon."
Mackey was convicted in March for circulating a satirical meme that encouraged Hillary Clinton voters to cast their votes by text message leading up to the 2016 election, bringing light to the absurdity of mail-in ballots. He was sentenced to seven months in prison in October, but had a judge placed his sentence on hold pending appeal.
He was, as Posobiec stated "illustrating absurdity by being absurd. It's just the most basic fundamental tenet of satire."
