[wmf]

I don't think most law enforcement agencies have any second factor to authenticate themselves online. And it's not the social media companies that suffer but their users whose privacy is being violated.

[jazzyjackson]

Don't you think it's within the social media companies interest to respond to as few subpeonas as possible i.e. only genuine ones from authorities?

but maybe you're right and this problem won't be solved because the person being harmed has no power and the institution in power sees no harm

[wmf]

Obviously they're going to try to verify law enforcement requests. It's a tradeoff.

[omniglottal]

"Try" == "it's a .gov email - looks good!"

[MichaelZuo]

Why do you believe they would?, it's definitely not demonstrated here.