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The reasonable person standard is important here. For example, a reasonable person would not interpret a picture of some shells on the beach on Instagram to be an actual threat against a politician.

This is different from reasonable doubt which is a standard of proof required to reach a criminal conviction.

From the second link:

It is a higher standard of proof than the standard of balance of probabilities (US English: preponderance of the evidence) commonly used in civil cases.

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