{"id":160,"date":"2018-04-13T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-09-24T02:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:43:36","slug":"legal-intelligencer-court-provides-guidance-on-the-authentication-of-social-media-posts-or-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-court-provides-guidance-on-the-authentication-of-social-media-posts-or-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Court Provides Guidance on the Authentication of Social Media Posts, Or Does It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><\/header>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\nIn the April 12, 2018 edition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/04\/12\/court-provides-guidance-on-the-authentication-of-social-media-posts-or-does-it\/\">Court Provides Guidance on the Authentication of Social Media Posts, Or Does It?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article-description hidden-xs hidden-sm\"><em>Facebook has been making headlines lately over claims it shared personal data on more than 87 million people to the political data firm, Cambridge Analytica for use in the 2016 presidential election. In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica chaos, the Pennsylvania Superior Court provided long-overdue guidance on the authentication of posts from Facebook and other social media platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\nFacebook has been making headlines lately over claims it shared personal data on more than 87 million people to the political data firm, Cambridge Analytica for use in the 2016 presidential election. In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica chaos, the Pennsylvania Superior Court provided long-overdue guidance on the authentication of posts from Facebook and other social media platforms. In the criminal case of\u00a0<em>Commonwealth v.\u00a0<\/em><em>Mangel<\/em>, 2018 PA Super 57 (Mar. 15, 2018), a case of first impression in Pennsylvania, the Superior Court held that Facebook posts are not admissible without evidence, whether direct or circumstantial, substantiating the authorship of the messages, see Daniel E. Cummins, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/04\/05\/authentication-in-the-digital-age-in-recent-cases-old-and-new-collide\/\">Authentication in the Digital Age: In Recent Cases, Old and New Collide<\/a>,\u201d The Legal Intelligencer, April 5, 2018, and Zack Needles\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/03\/21\/superior-court-adopts-standard-for-authenticating-social-media-posts\/\">\u201cSuperior Court Adopts Standard for Authenticating Social Media Posts,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, March 21, 2018, for excellent discussions on the\u00a0<em>Mangel<\/em>\u00a0case.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-court-provides-guidance-on-the-authentication-of-social-media-posts-or-does-it\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Legal Intelligencer: Court Provides Guidance on the Authentication of Social Media Posts, Or Does It?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 12, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes\u00a0Court Provides Guidance on the Authentication of Social Media Posts, Or Does It? 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