TRUE IN FAKE STYLE: TO THE QUESTION OF RELIABILITY
The article studies the question: “Which communication technologies should be considered destructive?” It focuses on the transformation of the phenomena of fake and trolling which occurs with the beginning of global information wars. Specific precedents of mass communication are analyzed in line with the concepts of the culture of popular laughter (M. M. Bakhtin) and the antinomy of “total parody - total propaganda” (E. I. Pronin). The author concludes that it is propaganda that has a destructive effect, transforming the laughing forms of the reflection of reality into a tool of disinformation and propaganda bugaboo.