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‘Protest but make it cute’: Top PH trend is a hashtag with turtle emoji
President Rodrigo Duterte challenged medical societies to start a revolution against him following their public criticism of his administration's COVID-19 response.
Duterte stated that he would welcome a revolution, as it would provide him justification to use his presidential powers to suppress it and carry out a counter-revolution.
He deemed the frontliners' distress call an accusation of incompetence, which he did not take well, along with their recommendations to improve government efforts.
Following Duterte's remarks, Filipinos creatively called him out on social media, making the hashtag #OustDu𓆉, which featured a turtle emoji, the top Twitter trending topic in the Philippines.
This also comes after new Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lieutenant General Gilbert Gapay said he wants to include social media in the scope of the controversial anti-terror law.
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