Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has asked the Digital Communications Ministry, through the Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), to monitor social media posts with race and religion-based narratives politicians use.

Zahid, who is also the rural and regional development minister, said that according to a report by the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), politicians were using race and religion issues on social media for their political mileage.

“This (action) creates a division between...