Do Facebook messages hold up in court?
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Do Facebook messages hold up in court?
The bottom line is that your social media content is discoverable, and a court can enter an order requiring you to produce it, if it is relevant to the issues in litigation. Even your private messages, chats, and personal emails can be compelled if they contain content that is relevant to the issues in a lawsuit.
Is it illegal to screenshot Facebook Messages?
If you were involved in the conversation, then yes, you would be legally entitled to post screenshots of a conversation you were engaged in. You are only allowed to record conversations that you are participating in, if you leave a recorder and walk out of the room, it would be considered illegal.
Are deleted FB messages gone forever?
If you delete a message from your Facebook inbox by pressing the X, it is sent to your archived folder, meaning it isn’t in any way deleted. So, good news if you want to recover old conversations that you carelessly deleted! Here you probably have years of old conversations that you thought were gone forever.
How can I get Facebook deleted messages back?
Unfortunately, there is no way to retrieve a Facebook message or conversation that you’ve already deleted—once you choose to delete a message, it’s gone from your side of the conversation for good.
