Social media posts and messages
show · educate · routePosts, profiles, and direct messages — screenshots are easy; authorship and completeness are the fight.
What this type commonly supports
- Statements and admissions
- Location, association, and timeline claims
How the gates bear on it
Authentication
Account ownership plus authorship of the specific post — distinctive content and metadata carry the finding-support burden.
“evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims”
Hearsay
Each post and comment is a potential statement with its own route.
“Except as provided by statute, hearsay evidence is inadmissible.”
Original contents
Platform exports beat screenshots; a capture that drops replies or edits meets the unfairness clause.
“It is unfair, under the circumstance, to admit the duplicate in lieu of the original.”
The governing units, loaded whole
The recurring failure modes
- Treating a profile name as authorship proof
- Capturing the post but not the edit history
- Deleting embarrassing content mid-dispute — preservation duties do not care whose post it is
Software, not a law firm. This page teaches how Florida's evidence gates generally bear on this type — legal information, not legal advice, and never a prediction about your evidence. Whether a particular item clears the gates in your case is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The five-gate frame lives on the Evidence Command Center.