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Best Evidence Rule Requires Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

In fact, given the unfortunately extensive but erroneous reliance on screenshots of social media evidence, The Best Evidence Rule could be cited far more frequently by opposing counsel seeking to contest the admission of such evidence. A case out of the federal courts in Texas addressed this issue head on.

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The Rise of “Post-Truth” Litigation: ALM’s Isha Marathe on How Deep Fakes Threaten the Legal System (TGIR Ep. 209)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

E-discovery professionals are on the front lines of detecting deep fakes used as evidence, according to Marathe. Catch Deepfakes If You Can: Can E-Discovery Tools Keep Up With Gen AI? So yeah, that’s that’s the that’s the discovery portion of it. They are easy and inexpensive to create but difficult to detect.