Government Contracting
Know Your Way Around Social Media Evidence
The use of so-called “social media” continues to expand both in terms of options and outlets and the number of people using it. In addition to chat rooms, countless discussion forums and blogs, plaintiffs may be active on social websites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Four Square, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Google Plus, LiveJournal and myLife.
Many lawyers and judges are also active social media contributors, but many more are not, and some remain utterly unfamiliar with this social phenomenon. From pictures of a lung-cancer plaintiff smoking a cigarette to a profile of a wrongful death widow on a dating website, social media can supply virtually endless evidence for impeachment or mitigating damages in personal injury and product liability cases.
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