Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has directed three social media platforms to block 14 posts deemed to target the Indian community and undermine multiculturalism. The directives were issued under the Online Criminal Harms Act.

Three social media platforms have been ordered to block access to 14 posts which “target the Indian community and undermine Singapore’s model of multiculturalism”, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Saturday. The police have issued disabling directions under the Online Criminal Harms Act to block access to the posts on YouTube, Facebook and X, MHA said in a statement. The direction required the platforms to “take all reasonable steps to disable access by Singapore users to these posts”,....