Phone masts in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Belfast were damaged in arson attacks in early April. Not all the masts are necessarily 5G towers.
While it's not yet certain what motivated these specific attacks, the mayor of Liverpool said he had received threats after condemning the 5G/coronavirus theory, and the Irish News reported that in footage of the mast being set on fire voices could be heard saying "f**k 5G."
Mobile telecoms expert Peter Clarke discovered a Facebook group urging people to burn 5G towers, and reported it.
The Verge reports that while Facebook was slow to act, the page has now been removed.
Mobile Networks are classified as Critical National Infrastructure, especially in these times when the public need to communicate remotely. Yet people are setting the infrastructure on fire while Facebook moderators think groups with such mast arson competitions are fine. pic.twitter.com/wItsGEIOfP
— Peter Clarke (@PedroClarke1)
April 3, 2020