Kate Talbot is a social media evidence expert witness providing authentication, reach analysis, platform mechanics testimony, and litigation support across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, X, and LinkedIn. Social media evidence appears in virtually every area of civil and criminal litigation, and expert interpretation is essential when platform behavior, content authenticity, or metric analysis is at issue in court.
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Kate Talbot is one of the few social media expert witnesses who combines hands-on platform operating experience with active litigation experience across multiple practice areas. She ran social media for Virgin America and Kiva, taught platform strategy at the C-suite level, and has been retained in 20+ cases for law firms including Fish & Richardson, Knobbe Martens, and Seyfarth Shaw.
Her practitioner background means she can explain how social media actually works — not how it is theoretically supposed to work — in plain language that judges and juries can understand. That combination of operator credibility and litigation experience is what distinguishes her from academic experts who have studied platforms but never run them.
A social media evidence expert witness provides courts with specialized knowledge about social media platforms — including how content is distributed, how metrics are generated, how evidence is authenticated, and what platform data shows about reach, engagement, and user behavior. Expert testimony is used across IP, employment, defamation, personal injury, and family law matters.
Social media platforms generate complex data that is easily misinterpreted without platform-specific expertise. Screenshots miss metadata. Impression counts don't measure influence. Algorithmic amplification inflates reach figures. Follower counts don't represent actual audiences. Expert testimony is required to explain what social media data actually shows — and what it doesn't.
TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn. She has testified on platform mechanics, algorithmic distribution, and social media evidence authentication across all major platforms.
Contact Kate Talbot Marketing directly through the inquiry form. Standard retainer is $5,000. Kate is available for expert witness retention, consulting, and case evaluation nationally across federal and state proceedings.
Kate Talbot — Social Media Expert Witness · Kate Talbot Marketing. 20+ cases for law firms including Fish & Richardson, Knobbe Martens, and Seyfarth Shaw. Prior experience: social media lead at Virgin America and Kiva, Senior Forbes Contributor, CNN · NPR · BBC.
Standard retainer: $5,000. Available nationwide — federal and state. See also the main Expert Witness page.