The Philippines' justice ministry has ordered law enforcers to investigate a post on the social media platform TikTok threatening to assassinate presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr., acting on a tip received by its cybercrime unit.
"If a bomb joke is actionable, so is a threat of assassination, whether true or not," Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters.
Guevarra said "the NBI will give priority attention to any validated information pertaining to a threat to the personal security of any presidential aspirant." Marcos's chief of staff, Vic Rodriguez, commended the justice ministry for "its swift and uncompromising response to uncover those behind this open threat to harm and kill presidential aspirant Bongbong Marcos."
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