In the course of the analysis of information terrorism, its essence, public danger and the complexity of detection and investigation by law enforcement agencies are investigated. The review of judicial practice on terrorist crimes is presented. The problem of using social networks and messengers for criminal purposes has been identified using the example of Telegram, with which criminals can communicate, recruit accomplices, train them, and create so-called "sleeping cells" of terrorist groups. It is noted that such messengers encrypt messages, the decryption of which will require considerable time, and as a result such information may become uninformative. The system of prevention of information terrorism in the Russian Federation has been identi-fied, which should be based on four approaches: socio-economic, organizational and technical, legal, and ex-ternal (international). It is concluded that the development of digital technologies, namely social networks (Fa-cebook , Twitter , VKontakte, Odnoklassniki), messengers (Telegram, WhatsApp , Viber, Line ) and other Internet platforms contributed to the expansion of crimes in the information sphere, especially infor-mation terrorism.

information terrorism, social networks, messengers, measures to prevent information terrorism, information technology, the Internet, criminological crime prevention

Shpak Alyona Alekseevna – Postgraduate, Omsk State University named after F. M. Dostoevsky (55A, Mir ave., Omsk, 644077, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0001-0683-6242, SPIN-code: 1971-0025, RSCI AuthorID: 1158177, e-mail: alena-shpak-2016@mail.ru

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