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In May 2018, satirical blog America's Last Line of Defense seized on a picture from an actual news outlet for a Facebook post hinging on a pungent attempt at a punchline. The post showed a photograph of a man with the following caption: Like everything else on the page and the LLOD blog, the story is fake. The person seen in the photograph, Mohamed Bakr, is actually a Muslim — but the image was taken from a story by KUOW-FM, a public radio station in Seattle, about its Ask a Muslim event in August 2016. In reality, Meria Joel Carstarphen has been the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools since 2014. The blog's Facebook page contains the disclaimer: One of the blog's affiliates, FreedomJunkshun.com, pulled a story in October 2017 after it promoted the claim that U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in action when he and his platoon were ambushed in Niger, was a deserter. KUOW sent us this statement concerning the post:
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