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On 8 January 2018, the web site America's Last Line of Defense published an article reporting that a police raid on a Tennessee congressman's property turned up a meth lab and fourteen pounds of methamphetamine: Had police in Hollister, Kentucky, actually raided such a shop, they would have been stymied in the pursuit of justice by the fact that the property's putative owner, U.S. Representative Jacob Gillstroff, does not exist. Only two of Tennessee's nine U.S. House of Representatives seats are held by Democrats, and neither of those seats is currently occupied by anyone named Jacob Gillstroff. In fact, Jacob Gillstroff doesn't seem to exist at all outside of this one story. Indeed, nothing in this report was true, which was hardly surprising given that it originated with America's Last Line of Defense, a site that is part of network of fake news sites offering fabricated political clickbait material under the guise of dealing in satire.
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