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  • 2017-07-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Malia Obama Fired from an Internship at the Spanish Embassy? (en)
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  • On 29 June 2017, the unreliable web site FreedomCrossroads.us posted a report stating that former President Obama's elder daughter, Malia, was fired from a cushy internship at the United States Embassy in Spain for using drugs: Although it was widely reposted and shared on social media as if factual, the report is entirely fictitious. As it happens, Malia Obama did work as an intern at the United States Embassy in Spain the previous summer (2016), but she was not fired from the job at that time, nor did she return to it in 2017 — so she couldn't have been fired from it then either. This year, according to mainstream press reports, Malia Obama completed a spring internship in New York City before vacationing with her parents overseas in June. The original source of the false report, Freedom Crossroads, bills itself as a satirical web site dedicated to lampooning conservative politics: Previous specimens of Freedom Crossroads' bullhonkey include reports that barrels containing human remains were found on Bill and Hillary Clinton's property and that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's daughters were arrested for smuggling cocaine. Previous stories spread about the teenaged daughter of the former United States President include rumors that she had been arrested with a gang of thugs, was expelled from Harvard, and was pregnant when she was sixteen. All of these stories were false. (en)
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