Information wars in the contemporary world and simulation of news dissemination

The paper considers information wars that are part of modern hybrid conflicts. They were analyzed using computer models that implement the process of information dissemination in social communities. The typology of the most relevant and cited tools made possible to find an effective algorithm for implementing the authors’ agent-oriented model that takes into account individual characteristics of people and allows differentiated assessment of the impact of information messages only on a certain group. Within the framework of computational experiments, the speed of information dissemination in the constructed digital twin of a social network was estimated depending on the change in the number of opinion leaders and the number of initially informed agents, as well as on the decrease in the average level of reputation of network agents. The instrument designed may be used separately, as well as along within the complex models, including demographic and economic components.