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They immediately posted a picture of the court order with my name and address on social media. They then added 7 more posts following the picture saying anything and everything about me : thief, cheater, etc. \n\nSomeone saw it and sent screen shots of it to me immediately. \n\nWould that have been considered a violation?","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1th88za/restraining_order_violation/","score":0.5,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":1,"subreddit":"legaladvice","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1th88za/restraining_order_violation/","created_iso":"2026-05-19T01:37:25Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":2,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_ede2d535f890af","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1thulrm","kind":"reddit_post","title":"What can we do about repeated communication?","summary":" Location: Texas \n But the person causing the problem is in another state as of now so I’m not sure if that changes things. \n\n My roommate broke up with her boyfriend almost nine months ago, he caught a flight back to the state they met, and since then he has been harassing her pretty much daily. He has messaged her on every possible social media platform, been subsequently blocked, and made new accounts to continue messaging her. He has messaged me and been blocked. He has messaged my fucking mother. He sent my roommate constant text messages until she changed her number, at one point he called a “wellness check” to our apartment to try and force her into talking to him. Right now his thing has been emails, every time she blocks one, he makes another. 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I 80% doubt my sister will ever try anything legal against me- she lives in OR as well (but there’s a small chance)-but it’s not 0%.\n\nMy dad (most likely) and possibly his family, may try to take legal action against me when I tell my story through TikTok and Spotify in a podcast format.\n\nI am ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1ths5t8/telling_my_story/","score":0.5,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":0,"subreddit":"legaladvice","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1ths5t8/telling_my_story/","created_iso":"2026-05-19T16:29:22Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":0,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_78b8ad0f0fa3cd","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1tg6d4k","kind":"reddit_post","title":"[TW] Can I sue someone for mistaken identity?","summary":"Location: Oregon\n\nMaybe a better title would be: Can I sue someone for causing mistaken identity?\n\n\n\nA little over a year ago, I woke up to my social media getting flooded with DMs that were making a lot of accusations, calling me horrible things and asking me for \"my side of the story\". I was confused until someone sent me a link to the 'source'. Apparently, there's a woman that's gone viral several times over for talking about an ongoing situation in her family. Apparently one of her kids is a mentally ill addict, abused another one of her kids, and is now going on to continue to abuse people.\n\n**The internet thinks I'm that woman's son.** We're guessing because she's from the same state, I'm very close in age to the son, I have the same nickname as the son, and we kind of look similar i","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1tg6d4k/tw_can_i_sue_someone_for_mistaken_identity/","score":0.5,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":0,"subreddit":"legaladvice","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1tg6d4k/tw_can_i_sue_someone_for_mistaken_identity/","created_iso":"2026-05-18T00:12:54Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":1,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_5752d69998f9d5","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1n10mcb","kind":"reddit_post","title":"[NY] can my probation officer enforce a rule that was never written?","summary":"i was put on probation for juvenile delinquency for a \"threat of mass harm\" (context: i didn't call it, but a friend overseas did and they pinned it on me) \ngot my phone taken on the scene for evidence, and later got my consoles taken for \"contact with the caller\" \nfew months later, my officer is questioning me over chargers i have in my room, which is pretty uncomfortable because that was never specified on my terms. they gave back my consoles with the judge saying \"stay off social media\" okay, cool.\nthey've been telling me i can't have my cell phone back, and this all happened back in march. they say i can't have smart tvs or anything that can \"access the internet\". but that was never a rule, written or spoken? they gave me extremely vague terms and when i asked about them they just said","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1n10mcb/ny_can_my_probation_officer_enforce_a_rule_that/","score":0.6,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":0,"subreddit":"AskALawyer","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1n10mcb/ny_can_my_probation_officer_enforce_a_rule_that/","created_iso":"2025-08-26T22:56:26Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":13,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_8de016fe1debd9","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1myporh","kind":"reddit_post","title":"Court Docket Information","summary":"Is it possible to obtain any further information off of a court docket than what is presented online? 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Let’s just call her Kate. Long story short, we fell off pretty quickly and she ended up ghosting me and blocking me off all social media. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it.\n\nFast forward several months, I ran into her friend at the grocery store. We chatted for about 5 minutes, and I asked her how Kate was doing. She told me that they didn’t speak to each other anymore, but she mentioned that right after their friendship ended that she became pregnant. Initially I didn’t think anything of it. But as I was driving home, I started thinking about the possibility of the child being mine. It was also very coincidental timing; I saw Kate during Sep 2023, and discovered her pregnancy 9 m","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1tg22pq/how_do_i_figure_out_if_an_estranged_child_is_mine/","score":0.7,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":259,"subreddit":"legaladvice","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1tg22pq/how_do_i_figure_out_if_an_estranged_child_is_mine/","created_iso":"2026-05-17T21:14:58Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":103,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_cb63d17a40853d","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1n0bbyn","kind":"reddit_post","title":"Jesus + NC public school = ?","summary":"Location: Robbinsville, North Carolina. \n-if you check out the robbinsville elementary school social media you will see a couple days ago the school hosted a \"prayer event\" of some sort just before the Fall session started. \n\nThe Facebook post says \" thank you to everyone who came out to pray at the elementary school tonight! You could just feel the presence of the lord all around!  Please continue to pray for the students and the staff continually throughout this school year\".  \n\nThe phost included photos of the hallways that they have in decorated in preparation for students that says \"Jesus is the core to a great school year\".  \n\nI commented on the post, because that is where I went to school, and that is where my nieces and nephew currently go to school.   I said... \" only in robinsvil","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1n0bbyn/jesus_nc_public_school/","score":0.6,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":0,"subreddit":"AskALawyer","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1n0bbyn/jesus_nc_public_school/","created_iso":"2025-08-26T03:28:57Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":21,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1},{"signal_id":"sig_c6a24bf9f4953c","matter_id":"mat_e0c48874ea81dc","source":"reddit","source_id":"reddit:1mxslck","kind":"reddit_post","title":"Custody","summary":"In WV. Is it possible to put in a divorce decree that children cannot be posted to social media? My current husband and i have talked about this. He has all socials, I have none. I have asked him so many times to not post our daughter (from before she was born to now, she’s 14 months). He will not budge. I just want her childhood to be private and each second of her day not posted for the world to see. He has thousands of friends on Facebook and I don’t want them seeing her. I try and explain that she’s a baby, she can’t consent and I want to respect her. I don’t think any parent should post their child. But that’s just my opinion. If we were to divorce, is it possible for that to be worked in? I want this for the protection of our daughter. Thank you. 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Is there anything I can do?","summary":"My loved one unfortunately has dementia. I am power of attorney and health proxy. This family member has not seen my loved one in over 7 years. When my loved one was diagnosed family member said they were pretending for attention. Also, said if my loved one showed up at her door she would turn them away. Family member even saw loved one at a diner when loved one was early stages and ignored them when loved one recognized her and wanted to say hi. Yesterday family member posted an old photo on Facebook with loved one saying my loving cousin. A friend commented and family member stated the photo is old and someone told her loved one is bed bound and no longer recognizes anyone. This is false information. I reached out to family member’s daughter to politely ask her to ask her mother to take ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1mxrnq6/ny_family_member_posted_a_photo_of_my_loved_one/","score":0.7,"decayed_score":null,"keywords":{"brands":["meta","tiktok","bytedance","snap","google","youtube"],"products":["social media","instagram","facebook","tiktok","snapchat","youtube"]},"provenance":{"feed":"reddit_public_json","score":11,"subreddit":"AskALawyer","source_url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1mxrnq6/ny_family_member_posted_a_photo_of_my_loved_one/","created_iso":"2025-08-23T04:11:08Z","search_term":"social media","num_comments":12,"retrieved_at":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z"},"resolved_by":"auto","resolution_confidence":0.975,"first_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","last_seen_iso":"2026-05-19T23:03:08Z","schema_version":1}]},"meta":{"api_version":"v1","schema_version":1,"self":"https://getclaimscout.com/api/v1/matters/social-media-addiction","docs":"https://getclaimscout.com/openapi.json","llms_txt":"https://getclaimscout.com/llms.txt"}}