Michelle Carter, 20, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last month. This week, she was sentenced 2.5 years in prison, plus 5-years of probation.

Increasingly, court cases are using social media to gather evidence. As criminal lawyer Brooke Winter said, “There is no such thing as a private conversation on social media.”

The Tinder Murder Case

You might have already read about the Gable Tostee case. It was a Tinder date gone astray in Australia that ended in death. In 2014, 26-year-old Warriena Wright matched with 28-year-old Gable Tostee on Tinder. The two flirted over text conversations, then met for the first time on August 8, 2014. They met up at a mall and went back to Tostee’s apartment. At 2 a.m., Wright fell 14 stories to her death.