New Delhi, June 6 -- The Singapore government on Saturday ordered social media platforms to block access to posts that targeted the Indian community in the country. According to Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), YouTube, Facebook and X have been ordered to block access to 14 posts under the Online Criminal Harms Act (OCHA).

The direction requires the platforms to "take all reasonable steps to disable access by Singapore users to these posts", it said.

"These videos attack our multiracial society and they try to divide people based on race. This, however, is not who we are. Every community in Singapore here is valued and everyone has an equal place," Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs Edwin Tong said on Tuesday.

"The...