Dear Class,
This is the Discussion for Week 3 and it consists of one of the Discussion Questions from the end of Chapter 8. Your response to this question will only be submitted to me and I am looking for you to provide your opinion and thoughts in coherent and complete sentences. Your response should be a paragraph or two of about 150 -200 words.
This Discussion will be open for one week, from July 19, 2021, at 12:00 am until July 25, 2021, at 11:59 pm.
Thank you,
J. White
Discussion Question:
The Supreme Court has defined public figures as those who have “voluntarily exposed themselves to increased risk of injury by assuming an influential role in ordering society.” When deciding whether someone is a public figure, courts look at whether this person has received press coverage, sought the public spotlight, and has the opportunity to publicly rebut the accusations. Some have argued that social media makes anyone with a public Facebook profile a certain number of Twitter followers a public figure. Do you agree? Should the Supreme Court revisit the definition of “public figure” in light of social media?