If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? - eviltoast

I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I’m old so there’s a MySpace account out there. But I’ve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

  • BrerChicken @lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nobody was being asked for their social media credentials, it’s not like you have to give them full access. What happened was that the attorneys looked the jurors up and went through their old posts, all stuff that was publicly available. One of the jurors they dismissed posted a picture of people celebrating Biden’s election win, and that was enough to show that they were biased.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      and that was enough to show that they were biased.

      no, it was enough to show that they MAY be biased. The juror in question thought the event was in celebration of caregivers.

      not sure if you’re deliberately distorting the truth or just uninformed but either way… classy.