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Would a screenshot of a deleted tweet hold up as evidence, either for an investigative journalist or in court? Given how easy it is to produce fake tweet screenshots, it seems it would be difficult-to-impossible to 100% verify authenticity, unless you had Twitter’s cooperation.



There's already independent recording of deleted tweets by politicians:

https://www.politwoops.com/countries

They could easily record fleets as well.




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