One of the reasons I think, is that the bbc app has a "popular" tab which I think is all most people bother with, and that never has gilets jaunes news. I get

One of the reasons I think, is that the bbc app has a "popular" tab which I think is all most people bother with, and that never has gilets jaunes news. I get all my gilets jaunes coverage from twitter. I'm also not entirely conviced that the "popular" tab is entirely what is popular vs what we the bbc (and above) would like to be popular.