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This is wrong. The BBC were reporting on it in detail both online and on TV news. I know this because I was actually working on contract for them at the time.

What we have is a lot of people changing the narrative since to discredit the BBC and divide everyone further.

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The BBC started reporting after the riots were in full swing and social media was already awash with information.

The point at which the BBC started reporting was the same as all other major news outlets: after the point that they just looked daft for not reporting it.

I know this as my videos of the riots took my little blog from 50 - 100 views a day to thousands per minute…

For anyone reading, this is entirely false. As sdcfgy says, these events were reported as usual in the news of the day.

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