Social Media Forensics System for Digital Evidence Collection

This project focuses on developing a social media forensics system that collects, preserves, and analyzes publicly available digital evidence from social platforms. It assists investigations by organizing posts, timestamps, user interactions, and multimedia content systematically.

Study legal and ethical considerations of collecting social media evidence.

Identify publicly accessible data points such as posts, comments, timestamps, and user IDs.

Design a system to collect and archive structured social media content.

Implement metadata extraction for multimedia files.

Preserve collected data using hashing techniques to ensure integrity.

Organize content chronologically for timeline reconstruction.

Provide keyword-based search functionality for investigators.

Generate structured reports summarizing relevant digital evidence.

Test using simulated social media datasets.

Document compliance considerations and privacy limitations.