Alongside those are hyped up clickbait posts on social media that are meant to create a false sense of hope, fear, anger, confusion, or generate ad revenue. The problem is, a lot of people tend to react from emotion and share the information without even taking a closer look or doing a little bit of research. Some of the most annoying clickbait has been circulating the internet for years, even decades, and this article is intended to end those misconceptions once and for all.

1) "Wikileaks Just Released A Massive Dump Of Files!"

No, they really didn't.

Wikileaks did not "just" release a massive dump of files, so when you see a hyped up post on social media claiming "OMG! Wikileaks just released a massive data dump on Clintons and…..," it's untrue. The link people are sharing is Wikileaks main index file page to all links on their site, which has always been there, and there is a mountain of information to sift through.

For added confirmation, simply pull up the index file page archived from 2014 (ten years ago) and a character count, excluding spaces, will show 92,797 characters. In comparison, the current index page shows 93,252 characters. The difference? Over the course of ten years, 455 characters have been added, which wouldn't account for more than a small handful of files added since 2014. Furthermore, all of their leaks show the release date on their site.