Digital space as a medium for the formation and dissemination of extremist ideology

Abstract

   The article is devoted to the study of the digital space as an environment for the formation and dissemination of an ideology of extremist orientation. The article provides statistical data on terrorist and extremist crimes; analyzed the forms of use by terrorist and extremist organizations of the digital space – the global network, instant messengers and social networks for the radicalization of youth, recruitment and dissemination of the ideology of terrorism and extremism. The necessity of new solutions, the active use of high technologies and modern tools for combating cybercrime, improving the strategy and tactics of counteracting these destructive influences is substantiated.