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Multiple mainstream news outlets reported only “hundreds” turned up in London protesting vaccine passports, lockdowns & experimental vaccines, but videos of the historic rally on May 29th tell a much different story.
PiperStLennon this. this non-piece and piddly bit of footage is what the bbc reported on the HUGE London rally:
originally posted by: Whodathunkdatcheese
a reply to: Doctor Smith
By the look of the BBC video, there's maybe a couple of thousand people there.
I've seen Trafalgar Square busier for Diwali.
Re your other source, Kill the Bill is not about lockdown or masks of COVID. It's about the Police and Crime Bill, which could potentially criminalise protest.
At first I wondered if Del Bigtree was deliberately conflating two different events.
Then I saw the dateline on your sources. Del Bigtree isn't the only one, is he?
COVID march, September 2020 - tiny
Kill the Bill / May Day march, driven mainly from the left, May 2021 - huge.
Apples and oranges, doc, apples and oranges.
Deny ignorance.
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: Whodathunkdatcheese
a reply to: Doctor Smith
By the look of the BBC video, there's maybe a couple of thousand people there.
I've seen Trafalgar Square busier for Diwali.
Re your other source, Kill the Bill is not about lockdown or masks of COVID. It's about the Police and Crime Bill, which could potentially criminalise protest.
At first I wondered if Del Bigtree was deliberately conflating two different events.
Then I saw the dateline on your sources. Del Bigtree isn't the only one, is he?
COVID march, September 2020 - tiny
Kill the Bill / May Day march, driven mainly from the left, May 2021 - huge.
Apples and oranges, doc, apples and oranges.
Deny ignorance.
Thank God someone with sense, and who is aware of the like of crapsites like BitChute as a source.
What bothers me is that ATS continues to allow material from BitChute to be used on this site, when in the past crap sites were banned here, as is BitChute elsewhere, banned from just about everywhere,
I'm disappointed to see that U.K. citizens aren't appropriately reciprocating against their government.
originally posted by: Whodathunkdatcheese
a reply to: Doctor Smith
By the look of the BBC video, there's maybe a couple of thousand people there.
I've seen Trafalgar Square busier for Diwali.
Re your other source, Kill the Bill is not about lockdown or masks of COVID. It's about the Police and Crime Bill, which could potentially criminalise protest.
At first I wondered if Del Bigtree was deliberately conflating two different events.
Then I saw the dateline on your sources. Del Bigtree isn't the only one, is he?
COVID march, September 2020 - tiny
Kill the Bill / May Day march, driven mainly from the left, May 2021 - huge.
Apples and oranges, doc, apples and oranges.
Deny ignorance.
Yet the bbc did the exact same thing and called it hundreds.
Several posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter claim that the BBC lied about the size of the anti-lockdown march in London on 29 May 2021. Altogether these posts were shared thousands of times.
In fact, the posts themselves contain a fabrication, because they base their claim on a fake image.
The posts compare two images. The first shows a large crowd in central London, which is either said or implied to be the anti-lockdown protest that took place on Saturday.
Different posts use different crowd photographs, which we have not yet been able to trace to their sources. According to the Guardian, “tens of thousands” people did attend the protest, but we cannot verify that estimate.
The second image is a screenshot showing the BBC News presenter Victoria Derbyshire above what appears to be a caption from the broadcaster which reads: “An estimated 350 people marched through London today in protest over Covid restrictions and vaccines”.
This caption is a crude fake that has been added afterwards. The original screenshot comes from a news report on 29 April 2020 about the birth of Boris Johnson’s youngest son.
The fake version is clearly not authentic, because the image of Ms Derbyshire is more than a year old. The text in the caption also uses the wrong typeface and has been centred on the screen, which is not the visual style of BBC News.
Ms Derbyshire has also said that the image is fake and that she wasn’t working on Saturday 29 May 2021.
fullfact.org...
originally posted by: Doctor Smith
a reply to: Whodathunkdatcheese
Yeah. It looks like that second link is from another Covid-19 protest earlier. I picked it up from a poster. The point is the crowd was very large. Not hundreds.
originally posted by: Hecate666
However!
The last rally was hundreds of thousands. The streets were full as far as the eye could see and thousands more were joining at different stages.
Yet the bbc did the exact same thing and called it hundreds.
Sorry you just picked one example and ran with it, if you were even right that is, when in fact this thread is still 100% correct.
originally posted by: Doctor Smith
This looked like a significant rally to me in London. They are finally getting fed up with this Covid -19 nonsense.
Multiple mainstream news outlets reported only “hundreds” turned up in London protesting vaccine passports, lockdowns & experimental vaccines, but videos of the historic rally on May 29th tell a much different story.
MEDIA CAUGHT LYING ABOUT LONDON MEGA-RALLY
PiperStLennon this. this non-piece and piddly bit of footage is what the bbc reported on the HUGE London rally:
Covid: Anti-restrictions protesters rally in London