Image: Instagram/@piawurtzbach
After joining new social media platform Threads, Pia Wurtzbach revealed her “worst experience” with rival Twitter, receiving hate and threats in 2020 for being against the then anti-terror bill.
The beauty queen, who lobbied to scrap the controversial bill using a Twitter hashtag, spoke about her experience via her Threads page on Thursday, July 6.
“Share your worst experience on Twitter. I’m going to go first: getting hate tweets literally every 30 seconds in 2020 when I voiced my opinion on the anti-terrorism bill,” she said. “I remember I didn’t even shade the [government] or the president, I just tweeted a hashtag and I got a lot of hate.”
Wurtzbach recalled that in addition to the hate comments, she also received threats that forced her to remove the app for a while.
“One of the worst was ‘sasaksakan ko ng tube p*ke mo, bobo ka walang alam’ (I’ll stick a tube in your sexual organ. You’re stupid and don’t know anything). I had to uninstall the [application] for a week to avoid reviewing the mentions,” he said.
Despite massive opposition, former President Rodrigo Duterte enacted the anti-terrorism bill in July 2020. The law seeks to strengthen the Human Security Law of 2007 and criminalizes incitement to terrorism “through speech, proclamation, writing, emblem, banner or other representation.”
In a subsequent post, Wurtzbach also revealed dealing with a social media user who regularly “stalked and ridiculed” the beauty queen for years.
“This person was reading every post, comment, video I was making on every platform, including my entire family. [and] intimate friends. They would also send approval messages. [and] brands that I work with to destroy me with invented narratives, “he recounted.
“I reported MANY times with clear evidence, but Twitter did nothing,” he continued. “It was clearly a slander [and] abusive behavior i had to sit there [and] Take it for years.
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Netizens felt sorry for Wurtzbach for his sad experience and expressed hope that Threads would be a safer platform for social media users.
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Image: Threads/@piawurtzbach
Social media giant Meta, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, thrown out Threads on July 5 (July 6 in the Philippines). Threads’ arrival comes after Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk traded barbs for months. /ra
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