Kony 2012 is the fastest spreading viral video in the history of the Internet. It is a documentary, created by an organization based in San Diego, CA, called Invisible Children. The purpose of both the video and the organization is to raise awareness of a murderous warlord in Africa, named Joseph Kony, who has, for the past three decades, been kidnapping children and, through brutal and barbaric means, turned them into soldiers and sex slaves for his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The video is suffused with emotional appeal for outrage, sympathy, guilt, and a noble urgency to help the pledge to capture Joseph Kony in 2012. But, here are some other facts to consider before buying into the emotional manipulation and jumping onto this new trend wagon.