Vasiliev N.A., Karpukhin O.I. Social networks: the transformation of the field freedom” into a weapon of the anti-Russian information war. SEARCH: Politics. Social studies. Art. Sociology. Culture. 2022. No. 4(93). Pp. 18-32. Vasiliev N.A., Karpukhin O.I. Social networks: the transformation of the field freedom” into a weapon of the anti-Russian information war. SEARCH: Politics. Social studies. Art. Sociology. Culture. 2022. No. 4(93). Pp. 18-32.ISSN 2072-6015DOI нетРИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/contents.asp?id=49857886Posted on site: 21.10.22Текст статьи/выпуска на сайте журнала URL: https://disk.yandex.ru/i/CZstTW-UBENcjQ (дата обращения 21.10.2022)AbstractThe author of the article set the task to identify and characterize the main factors underlying global changes in media communications in the Russian Federation. Analysis of a large number of new sources of information allowed us to conclude that social networks have become the most important link in the infrastructure of the information space and one of the main tools of strategy and tactics for the destruction of Russia as a state and Russian civilization as a whole. Therefore, the scientific community and, most importantly, the political authorities face the most important problem of countering the aggressive information and network expansion of the West.