This weekend, thousands of people protested at hotels across the UK. The BBC ran just one story on it, focusing on “arrests”, “clashes”, and “anti-migrant groups”. No interviews. No photos. No voices from the protestors. Just framing: these people are dangerous.

I know first hand how this works. I worked at the BBC during the Sunderland protests and riots last year. Here’s what I was told: “The protests may go off peacefully, in which case they’re not newsworthy.” The BBC only wants to cover protests against immigration when they are

🟢 BLM: 7th June 2020 “George Floyd: London anti-racism protests leave 27 officers hurt” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-... The BBC reports that the protests were “largely peaceful”. That’s despite the fact that 27 police officers were injured, including one “who suffered a broken

🟢 Pro-Palestine: 22nd October 2023 “Pro-Palestinian protests take place in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast and Salford” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-... This time the BBC doesn’t call the protests peaceful, even though there were only 10 arrests at this one (including an assault

🟢 Southport Counter Protests: August 2024 “Police thank London for unity and 'community spirit'” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art... In 2024, thousands protested against the “far right”, who apparently didn’t turn up. The BBC frames it positively as a “coming together” full of

🔴 Epping Hotel Protests: 26th July 2025 The BBC has covered some of the protests at migrant hotels. But they only seem to do it when they can frame it negatively towards the protestors. “Protests leave asylum seekers afraid to exit hotel” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art... The article

🔴Epping Hotel Protests: 27th July 2025 The next day they covered it again, but this time around the negative frame that there were more counter-protestors. “Rival groups stage protests at migrant hotel” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art... “Between 300 and 400 anti-migrant protesters…

🔴 UK-wide Hotel Protests: 2nd August 2025 Now let’s look at the one story the BBC ran on this weekend’s protests, in which protestors across the UK far outnumbered any counter protestors. “Arrests after asylum hotel protests in England” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art... The headline

What have we learned? The BBC doesn’t report on protests. It curates narratives. 🟢 If your cause fits the worldview, you get empathy. 🔴 If it doesn’t, you’re erased or smeared. No overt lies, just framing that dictates whether the reader should sympathise with the cause or

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@ChrisMid I used to work there too. It's pretty hard to prove that being ignored is because they disagree with you. This march you're flagging has been organised for weeks by Britain First. This is not random 'British people' - thats why everyone has a flag. Why did you not mention that

@ChrisMid Thanks for that. Very informative. What’s your take on the pro-Pal protests.

@ChrisMid Really no idea why idiotic Brits still pay the TV licence. 🤔

@ChrisMid The BBC doesn’t report news. It manufactures public opinion. If you’re waving rainbow flags in Gaza — full coverage. If you’re waving UK flags in London — radio silence. They don’t fear misinformation. They fear misalignment. Because the moment the public starts thinking for

@ChrisMid BBC is left wing and pro Hamas , alongside being paedo central

@ChrisMid You’re not telling us anything new! They have been guilty of this for decades, the Miner Strikes, The Poll Tax riots, The 2011 Riots, everytime there has been civil unrest, the Propoganda machine of the bbc has went into over drive, Tarring and demonising protestors, rather

@ChrisMid Same here, I left in 2023

@ChrisMid I can't stand the BBC they're the worst I wouldn't support them if you paid me to.

@ChrisMid no-one watches tv anymore so who cares?

@ChrisMid Big black cock is a more respectable use for the acronym

@ChrisMid that tracks. you can always tell which protests the BBC likes, those get the soft interviews and close-ups. ones they don’t? barely mentioned or framed like a threat. media bias isn’t new. but when it comes from the taxpayer-funded broadcaster, it hits different.

@ChrisMid I think lost main stream media act this way although BBC is probably the worst.

@ChrisMid They don't think they are censoring. They just hate anyone who doesn't think exactly like them.

@ChrisMid I was at the Thistle Barbican protest and there was no trouble at all from our side. A few Antifa were arrested after throwing missiles at the police.

@ChrisMid The @BBC is finished They are living on borrowed time The revolution might not be televised but it will be live streamed 🤝🏼

@ChrisMid True - attend a Tommy Robinson or British patriot rally and then check the coverage little to non e- or branded all far right regardless of the real attendance and behaviour.

@ChrisMid The BBC has been a government propaganda outlet for decades now!

@ChrisMid Nothing in Dutch media either. Mainstream media filter jointly. They must hate X!

@ChrisMid Grad you see the truth now and are exposing them

@ChrisMid The control of the government is to blame. #DefundtheBBC

@ChrisMid Great thread 👍🏼 keep those receipts.

@ChrisMid To make the point, on my timeline at the same time as this march

@ChrisMid Public perception is key, its what msm rely on for its propaganda agenda.

@ChrisMid Why are journalists not demanding answers from @metpoliceuk why peaceful 'sit in mum's' protest at Canary Wharf given a non-return dispersal order at Britannia International Hotel.

@ChrisMid Bias? Shocking, not really.

@ChrisMid @grok is there asymmetry in bbc coverage of protests based on ideology