00:00These hotels have been attacked because it was known that asylum seekers were staying here.
00:04This is the Holiday Inn in Rotherham. It was hosting 240 asylum seekers.
00:09Now, the reason that they were targeted was because of the spread of misinformation online.
00:15This was saying that a recent murder of three young girls in Southport was perpetuated
00:20by an asylum seeker that was Muslim who had arrived on a small boat.
00:24Now, that simply wasn't true, but it spread online and tapped in some deeply held sentiment
00:28regarding asylum seekers here in the UK.
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