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On 13 March 2018, satire blog The Last Line of Defense garnered more than 11,000 shares for a picture posted on its Facebook page lampooning unsuspecting readers' fear of anything that might make them think of the threat of Sharia law. The image showed California Gov. Jerry Brown alongside the caption: The governor is not suddenly requiring the teaching of Arabic numerals; the fact is that the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, as it is also called, is already used worldwide. The picture was published shortly after the blog posted a story about Brown signing a Public School Cultural Reform bill: Like all of the blog's content, the story is a fabrication; the site contains a disclaimer featuring a definition for satire and the statement: In October 2017 another satirical site affiliated with the blog, FreedomJunkshun.com, posted a story referring to U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson — who was killed during an attack on his platoon in Niger — as a deserter. The story was later pulled.
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