On Current Issues of Countering Youth Extremism in the Global Network

The purpose of this article is to research and summarize data in the field of combating manifestations of extremism in the global network in the modern conditions of globalization and informatization of society. New forms and ways of introducing the young generation into extremist activities through the global Internet, which has become the main means of communication for extremist and terrorist organizations, are analyzed. Among the main tasks that the leaders of extremist organizations are solving through the use of social platforms is looking for new recruits. The huge resources of cyberspace, which is not limited by either time, geographic, organizational or technological boundaries, provides its users with the opportunity to communicate around the clock, from any part of the Earth, while maintaining anonymity. Using the listed opportunities, criminals can use without restrictions all the necessary tools of manipulative techniques, with the help of which the unconsciousness of the actions of the majority of those involved, their lack of understanding of their participation in extremist activities, is ensured. The younger generation is the most vulnerable part of society, in which, due to the small life experience and the perceptual acuity of the surrounding reality, there is an accumulation of negative protest potential. Extremist organizations attract highly qualified psychologists to work on social services, forums and messengers, who, as soon as possible, form a psychological portrait of a young interlocutor who has entered into communication, and then find the proper approach to him and establish possible ways of using it in the framework of extremist activities. The article analyzes the possibilities of using and the characteristic features of the destructive information and psychological impact exerted by extremist organizations on the mass consciousness of the Internet audience. The current issues of countering youth extremism in the information field, which require further study and generalization, are indicated.

youth extremism, extremist organizations, extremist activity, materials of extremist orientation, radicalism, terrorism, informational extremism, cybercrime, cyberspace, the global Internet