Redefining public figures on social media: Application of the public figure doctrine to social media users who became viral as a result of unwanted publicity

• Main Authors: Guanio, Agustini Alfonso, Aldaba, Juan Benedicto Magsakay
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Social media—Law and legislation; Mass media and publicity; Libel and slander; Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_law/25
• Institution: De La Salle University

Libel principles have “lost much of their flavor, drowned and swamped as they have been by the ceaseless cacophony and din of thought and discourse emanating from just about every source and direction.”1 We are now at an age where everyone can be a publisher, a reader, and a listener at the same tim...