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A 59-year-old man will be charged in court on 11 March 2026 in relation to four videos he had posted on TikTok in 2023 and 2025, which contained content which promotes ill will between different racial groups, and also contained false statements of fact. 
 
In a video posted on 26 August 2025 on his TikTok account, the man made remarks which promote ill-will between the Chinese community and other racial groups in Singapore. The video also stated that the Government is using its money and resources to nurture leaders only from the Chinese race – which is false. 

The man also made statements which are criminally defamatory of various Public Officials. 

He also posted videos on 12 August 2023 and 17 July 2023 on his TikTok account which contained false statements of fact. In the video posted on 12 August 2023, he said that no one among low and middle-income CPF members who utilised their CPF monies to repay their HDB loan has met either the Basic Retirement Sum or Full Retirement Sum in their CPF accounts. In the video posted on 17 July 2023, he said that the Government can trace votes in order to penalise voters. These statements are false.

He was issued with 24-month Conditional Warnings in 2024 by the Police and the POFMA Office respectively, in relation to the aforementioned videos posted in 2023. The Conditional Warnings required him to refrain from criminal conduct within the specified period. As he breached the Conditional Warnings by allegedly committing the offences arising from the video posted on 26 August 2025, he is now being charged also for the offences arising from the 2023 videos.

The man will be charged with two counts of defamation under Section 500 of the Penal Code 1871, one count of attempting to promote on grounds of race, feelings of ill will between different racial groups under Section 298A(a) of the same Act, as well as three counts of communicating false statements of fact under Section 7 of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (POFMA).