Shamed: You Are What You Tweet ─ BBC Radio 1

When your social media past comes back to haunt you, the impact can be life changing. Alice Levine meets people affected, and explores the growing trend of 'Search and Shame'.

The stream of celebrities being called out for making offensive comments on their social media profiles is on the rise: Stormzy, Jack Maynard, Zoella - the list is growing. But public figures aren’t the only ones at risk of being caught out online.

Radio 1’s Alice Levine investigates the growing phenomenon of online shaming. She meets digital journalist Amelia Tait, who invented the term 'Search and Shame' to describe this trend, and has been documenting it over the past two years.

Alice also has a frank and deeply personal chat with Josh Rivers, who was recently fired from his job as editor of Gay Times when offensive tweets from his past were unearthed.

Graduate recruitment expert Dan Hawes reveals the specific things employers find off-putting on social media, conducting an in-depth social screening of two young people.

If you're in the UK, you can watch the full 18-minute documentary on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p061...