Social Media Monsters

  • Premiered: Oct 2025
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 2
  • Running
  • Channel 4
  • Monday at 22
  • Crime Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 2025
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?
1x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 13, 2025
When businesswoman Justine Wright lets an employee go, it sparks a decade-long stalking campaign against Justine and others.
1x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 20, 2025
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.
1x4
Episode 4
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 2025
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.
1x5 Midseason finale
Episode 5
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 15, 2025
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.
1x6
Episode 6
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 06, 2026
When a friend's break-up turns nasty, Elianne Andam is caught up in the backlash, and a reckless online declaration leads to extreme real-life violence.
1x7
Episode 7
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 2026
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.
1x8
Episode 8
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 08, 2026
'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.
1x9
Episode 9
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 2026
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.
1x10
Episode 10
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 12, 2026
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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