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In July 2017, an assortment of unreliable web sites published articles reporting that two of U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's daughters were arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine. That the reports were pure bunk was immediately evident from the inaccuracy and inconsistency of their facts. For example, FreedomCrossroads.us named the arrested daughters as Julie Marie and Nicole Lynn: According to Our Land of the Free, on the other hand, the daughters' names were Louanne and Marissa: As it happens, Nancy Pelosi does have four daughters, but their names are Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline, and Alexandra. There have been no reports in the mainstream media that any of them were arrested for smuggling drugs or anything else. Nor, needless to say, was the minority leader herself taken into custody at her California home. Both Freedom Crossroads and Our Land of the Free are satire sites whose fictional content takes aim at conservative rumor-mongering and conspiracy web sites. According to a disclaimer on Freedom Crossroads: The About Us page on Our Land of the Free states: Among the other untrustworthy web sites that reposted the articles were The Premium News, Waza News, Jew World Order, and America Daily News 24, and News Feed Hunter.
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