Social Media Analysis For Investigations And Trials

Public social media activity, observe the writers of this Today’s General Counsel article, “can tell a lot about people, from the banal to the revelatory, and from the embarrassing to the indictable.” Lawyer and investigators, have taken note, and today research into what people post on social media sites, and with whom they communicate, is increasingly being used in corporate investigations and trial intelligence. Writers Wendy Schmidt and Scarlett Kim, from Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, take a look at this phenomenon new analytical tools that make it feasible.