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The far-right are learning to avoid live streaming their riots

This stood out to me in reports of last night’s riots in Belfast:

Nearby, a car was set on fire. As the chaos unfolded, a man in a skull face mask told people to put their phones away. Helicopters circled overhead, and two police officers looked on from their car as smoke billowed towards the sky – but appeared to conclude that it was not safe to intervene.

The Shankill Road crowd’s hostility to being filmed was in sharp contrast to the unrest that broke out in Southport in 2024, where many members of the crowd recorded videos of events as they unfolded. Here, a teenager was dragged out of the crowd, apparently because he had been using his phone. “You’re hurting me,” he shouted. “I can’t breathe.”

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