Social consequences of the impact of foreign media the on young people`s protest activity

Today, the Russian Federation, in the new dynamically transforming realities: the confrontation of Western ideology, the cultivated "culture of cancellation", as well as conducting of a special military operation of Russia on the territory of the Ukraine (SVO), faces many tasks protecting the population from aggressive information and the infl uence from the outside. Especially vulnerable to digital "stuffi ng" are young people – a socio-demographic group characterized by an unformed worldview and value attitudes. The article examines the activities of foreign mass media and their impact on the protest activity of young people, as well as the impact on the spread of extremist ideas and increasing criminality among the minors. An up-to-date defi nition of the media is given in accordance with the current regulatory legal acts. The main social consequences of the negative impact, based on the monitoring of the secondary analysis of sociological research (the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion and Regional Studies), are revealed. The analysis of the main ways and methods of dissemination of information by foreign mass media is carried out. The author formulates the main social consequences of the infl uence of foreign mass media, aff ecting the escalation of protest activity of modern Russian youth.