Season 1

Social Media Monsters

Season 1

2025tvReturning Series1 Season · 10 Ep
DocumentaryCrime

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Network: Channel 4

Season aired: 2025-10-06

Overview

Social Media Monsters examines serious crimes where social media played a significant role, meeting victims, friends and families, and gaining insight from police, psychologists and other experts

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Episodes · 10

Episode 1
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Episode 1

47m2025-10-06

When 15-year-old Holly Newton split up with Logan MacPhail, he hacked her social media accounts, tracked her movements and brutally attacked her. Can the police prove the attack was premeditated?

Episode 2
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Episode 2

47m2025-10-13

When businesswoman Justine Wright lets an employee go, it sparks a decade-long stalking campaign against Justine and others

Episode 3
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Episode 3

47m2025-10-20

Teenager Joe Dix was groomed on social media by a county lines gang. Despite his parents' attempts to get him out of drug-dealing, he kept getting pulled back in, with tragic consequences.

Episode 4
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Episode 4

47m2025-12-14

When Leah Ware stopped posting on Facebook, her family assumed she was still living on a farm with the boyfriend she'd met online. But then another woman vanished after visiting the same remote farm.

Episode 5
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Episode 5

47m2025-12-15

Carson Sistrunk disappeared after going to see a woman who he met on Snapchat. The police investigation uncovered a disturbing pattern of deception and crime.

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Episode 6

47m2026-01-06

Shortly after 15-year-old Elianne Andam's friend broke up with 17-year-old Hassan Sentamu, a meeting between the ex-partners ended in humiliation for Hassan, prompting him to tell his friends online that 'he can't let it slide'. The next time he saw the girls, he was carrying a knife

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Episode 7

47m2026-01-07

Lyne Barlow's Facebook page advertises incredible holiday deals that are too good to be true - until Durham police unearth one of the largest fraud cases they've ever seen

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Episode 8

47m2026-01-08

'Chloe' has been messaging boys in Essex on Snapchat and Instagram and exchanging intimate pictures. But 'Chloe' is an alter ego for a prolific paedophile bent on abuse.

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Episode 9

47m2026-01-09

When James comes to the aid of a homeless man while celebrating a family birthday, he's murdered by an irate teenager with a knife. And it's on Snapchat. And Essex Police are onto it.

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Episode 10

47m2026-01-12

Ali Abulaban becomes TikTok famous when his character Jinnkid gathers hundreds of thousands of followers. Meanwhile, in the real world, his behaviour spirals into domestic abuse and more.

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