No, Marvel Rivals developer NetEase isn't intentionally planting fake leaks to mess with everyone, but its datamined characters aren't guaranteed to appear in the future, either

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When directly asked if NetEase Games was purposefully trolling dataminers with this stuff, Koo says: “No.

We would rather spend our time developing the actual game.”