Methods of Psychological Warfare on Social Media Users And Their Impact On The Value System

Abstract

When searching and analyzing significant news, the corresponding events could be, for example, different by their spreading scale: some events could not be noticed outside the region where they originated while others could attract attention from various regions, countries and news agencies. Moreover, it is common that one event or accident could be commented and interpreted from very different points of view. Observing a large amount of data published daily by news agencies around the world, it could be noticed that there is a variety of different positions and opinions expressed. News sources translate some opinions, some emotional context and by this way influence large amount of people to form their point of view and opinion about some object or event. The inclination to change the name proceeded after the Victory in Europe. The British and French have selected Information Support and the Germans so resolved to memory of Goebbels now call it Operation Information. The latest addition to the unofficial list is Information Warfare, which is also used to suggest attacks and defence of computers databanks and networks. Some try to distinguish it from the psychological warfare by calling it Information Technology Warfare while others think that the psychological warfare and information technology warfare belong to the same spectrum, the Information.  The Conspiracy model in social media, Social identification model of deindividuation effects and Social identity theory of leadership along with the social media propaganda tools will be tested through the case study analysis