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On 31 October 2017, the disreputable web site Freedum Junkshun published a fake news article claiming that two of Hillary Clinton's employees were arrested for destroying evidence related to a probe launched by House Republicans in response to several Trump allegations: There are a number of ways to tell that this story is a work of fiction. For one, the Breitbart article cited by Freedum Junkshun does not exist. The web site linked to Breitbart's home page, not a specific article, and our search for news about the arrest of Jon Crawford and Elizabeth Palmer on Breitbart came up empty handed. Second, the image purportedly showing two Clinton employees getting arrested for destroying evidence is actually several years old. The earliest posting of this photograph we could uncover came from the Popular Resistance Twitter account on 3 November 2014 and purportedly shows two people getting arrested during a protest against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Lastly, Freedum Junkshun is a well-known fake news web site that has a history of publishing misinformation. The web site carries a satire tag in the footer of the web site and states in its About section that all of their articles should be considered fictitious:
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