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.
Can Facebook private messages be used in divorce court?
Before divorce evidence is admissible in court, it must be authenticated, or shown that it is what you are claiming it to be. For electronically stored information such as text messages or Facebook messages, there are distinctive characteristics for each piece of evidence that make it authentic.
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.
