Approaches to ensuring information security and psychological safety in social media

Statement of the problem. In the modern world, information and information technologies play an important role in all spheres of society and the state. At the same time, the Internet not only provides new opportunities, but can also have a destructive effect on users, mainly young people. The purpose of the study is to identify the possibilities of ensuring information security and psychological safety in the Internet space. The research methodology is based on approaches to automatic filtering of social media content. Research results. Approaches to detecting prohibited content on the Internet are analyzed and compared. The choice of a method for conducting a computational experiment is substantiated and conclusions are drawn based on the results of its implementation. Conclusion. The article presents results of the research on the problem of an automated procedure for detecting and filtering content prohibited by the legislation of the Russian Federation on the Internet.