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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers - The Guardian

Inside the Rage Machine

9pm, BBC Two
“My goal is to not get sued,” says Matt Motyl, a former senior staff researcher at Facebook and Meta. He is one of the ex-employees who give reporter Marianna Spring the inside story of how social media giants have profited from algorithms that perpetuate divisiveness and hate. She also studies whistleblower documents, the arrival of TikTok and charts how events such as the pandemic and the Southport riots played out across various platforms. Hollie Richardson

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing

9pm, Channel 4
When the going gets tough, the cuffed get going … It’s the climactic week of the stressful reality show that shackles chalk-and-cheese contestants together to see who can hold out the longest. Tuesday’s final will see one pair claim the 100,000 prize but first, the five remaining duos must try not to fall out while going on old-school UK holidays. Graeme Virtue

DTF St Louis

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Linda’s a “Go-Getter”. At least that’s the name of her preferred smoothie at Jamba Juice. But it also describes her energy with Clark, and their role-playing affair, in a suburban satire where everybody and everything’s off-kilter. As DTF user “Modern Love” (a brilliant Peter Sarsgaard) says: “No one’s normal. It just looks that way from across the street.” Ali Catterall

Small Prophets

10pm, BBC Two
Will Michael find out what happened to Clea in this finale? That was why he originally made the prophets come to life – but he has yet to actually ask...



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