Linguistic expertise of extremist texts in VKontakte social network

The fight against extremism is one of the priorities of the state policy of the Russian Federation. A large number of crimes related to extremism have moved to the Internet, including the social network Vkontakte. The author of the article examines the linguistic signs of extremism in texts that fall into this social network. Through the analysis of judicial practice in this category of crimes, it is concluded that the results of linguistic expertise are of great importance as the main evidence of the prosecution in criminal cases.