Hybrid Trolling as a Method of Information Warfare and Techniques for Combating it
Abstract
The article presents a brief report on the study conducted by the leaders of the youth volunteer organizations "Anti-Extremism" and "Community Against Nationalism" on the classification of Internet trolls, recognition of their behavior in the network content and the analysis of methods to combat Internet provocation. The authors analyze the terms "hybrid war", "information war", "psychological warfare", revealing their interconnection as parts of the whole. The study of the activity of Internet trolls of a hybrid nature was conducted on the basis of the analysis of the comments of users of social networks to the distribution of political content. The urgency of the issue under consideration is primarily in the fact that the rapid development of scientific and technical progress in the world has predetermined not only positive, but also negative manifestations, in particular, qualitative and quantitative changes in transnational and Russian crime in the field of computer information and the use of high information technologies in the commission of crimes and offenses. A distinctive feature of this trend in crime is a pronounced transnational nature, the lack of a unified approach to counteracting criminality in the sphere of high information technologies in the states of the Eurasian and American continents.
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