US EditionSingapore Orders TikTok and Meta to Disable Former ISA Detainee’s Accounts Over Racial Incitement
Singapore authorities invoked the Online Criminal Harms Act to disable accounts of a former detainee inciting racial hostility and election interference, police said.
- On Nov 26, Singapore police issued an Account Restriction Direction to TikTok and a Disabling Direction to Meta under the Online Criminal Harms Act targeting Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff's accounts.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs said his posts incited racial and religious enmity, breaching the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, and authorities said he tried to interfere in the 2025 General Election, leading IMDA to direct Meta to block election posts.
- Former ISA detainee Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff was held in 2016 for promoting terrorism and ran Sinews Radio, then renounced Singapore citizenship in August 2020 before posting from Australia.
- As of 2.30pm on Wednesday, his TikTok account was no longer accessible, and authorities warned of fines up to $1 million for non-compliance while Singapore police investigate other social media accounts.
- Since the Act's start, police have issued account-restriction and disabling directions to tackle online criminal harms, but directives were not issued to X, where he still posts similar claims.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore has ordered TikTok and Meta to block access in Singapore to the accounts of an Australian man authorities say has contributed to the radicalisation of two of its citizens, the ministry of home affairs said on Tuesday. Former Singaporean Zulfikar bin Mohamad Shariff “called on Muslims to reject the constitutional, secular, democratic state in favour of an Islamic state governed by Syariah law”, said the ministry in …
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