Social Media Monsters (2025)

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2025-10-06

Last Air Date: 2026-01-12

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 10

Networks: Channel 4

Seasons

Season 1 (2025)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2025-10-06)

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?
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2025-10-13)

When businesswoman Justine Wright lets an employee go, it sparks a decade-long stalking campaign against Justine and others
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2025-10-20)

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.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2025-12-14)

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.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2025-12-15)

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.
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2026-01-06)

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
Ep. 7: Episode 7 (2026-01-07)

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
Ep. 8: Episode 8 (2026-01-08)

'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.
Ep. 9: Episode 9 (2026-01-09)

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.
Ep. 10: Episode 10 (2026-01-12)

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.