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 Linda Cardellini in DTF St Louis. Photograph: Sky 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
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