DAVAO CITY – The hashtag #dutertepalpak went viral in social media after the State-run People’s Television Network (PTV-4) twitted a news saying President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the government to provide free face masks to all Filipinos while awaiting deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines.
The tweet also mentioned BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, a popular seven-member South Korean boy band, alongside the #dutertepalpak which trended in Twitter. The hashtag has been used by Filipinos to criticize the government’s poor response to the pandemic since it began in March last year.
The tweet was taken down hours after it went viral on various social media platform and PTV-4 apologized for the “error” and saying the tweet should read: “President Rodrigo R. Duterte reiterated his order to provide free masks for the public especially to those who cannot buy their own” instead of ““President Rodrigo R. #dutertepalpak BTS reiterated his order to provide free masks for the public especially to those who cannot buy their own.”
Palpak is a Filipino word for “failure.”
The PTV-4 is under the supervision of the Presidential Communications Operations Office headed by Secretary Martin Andanar.
A recent tweet on PTV-4 said: “PTVph posted an update about the President’s directive to provide free face masks to Filipinos who cannot afford to buy their own. The erroneous message that was inadvertently posted by the PTV New Media, as it turned out, was the result of predictive systems in the text entry phase and a failure to adequately review and screen the message that actually got posted. PTV New Media deeply regrets the error and take full responsibility for the oversight. The management will certainly institute disciplinary actions against members of the social media team who are behind the erroneous posting.”
A search on Twitter of the #dutertepalpak only shows more criticisms and comments from Filipinos on how Duterte poorly handled the pandemic and the continuing increase in active Covid cases in the country and the lack of vaccines despite the huge loans the government got from local and foreign creditors now at over $13 billion. (Mindanao Examiner)
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