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On 31 October 2016, what appeared to be a screenshot of an e-mail purportedly sent by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, to an unidentified individual was circulated online, describing the candidate in several unflattering ways: The image appeared during the release of a multi-part WikiLeaks series called The Podesta Emails (gleaned from hacked e-mails sent to and from Podesta's account), and in the flood of documents dumped by WikiLeaks throughout October 2016 it was often mistaken for a legitimate communication. However, it was pretty simple to discern via WikiLeaks searchable archive that no such offensive e-mail exists. This claim was far from the first opportunistic WikiLeaks fabrication to go viral on social media. An earlier fabricated WikiLeaks item falsely suggested Clinton had described a large swath of Democrats as a bucket of losers.
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