A tensão entre público e privado no exercício das liberdades comunicativas nas redes sociais: o caso de mensagens públicas de autoridades governamentais por meio de contas “privadas”

Abstract

This article addresses the impact that social networks can produce in the public-private relationship, when these are employed by political agents, as forms of interaction between government and governed, from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. Trump, in 2018. The hypothesis raised in the text is that traditional forms of analysis of these dimensions are insufficient in view of the complexity that emerges from the construction of virtual interactive spaces. In addition, we seek to demonstrate that any response to the new challenges of the virtual world must have as a backdrop the democratic requirements that shape freedom of expression, even though this conception needs to be reread and rewritten for other contexts. We have adopted a critical-methodological approach. In this sense, the theses and positions on freedom of expression presented in the court decisions worked in the text were read through a discursive and dialogical lens.