usually the majority of citizens in the country. non-existent fictitious persons, created as it were and seemingly functioning thanks to the Internet by creating profiles of these fictitious persons on social media portals referred to as fake profiles created and functioning on these portals, to seriously influence the world view, the general social awareness of Internet users, i.e. According to analysts researching the problem of growing disinformation on the Internet, in highly developed countries it is enough to create 100 000 avatars, i.e. Not only does the organised political group PIS not restrict the use of Tik Tok by employees of public institutions, but it also motivates the use of this portal by politicians of the ruling PIS option to publish videos as part of the ongoing electoral campaign, which would increase the chances of winning parliamentary elections for the third time in autumn this year 2023. In Poland, however, the opposite is true. In addition, there have already been more than a few cases of data leaks on other social media portals, telecoms, public institutions, local authorities and others based on hacking into the databases of specific institutions and companies. These actions are argued by the governments of these countries in order to maintain a certain level of cyber security and reduce the risk of surveillance, theft of data and sensitive, strategic and particularly security-sensitive information of individual institutions, companies and the state.

Consequently, in recent months, the development of some social media sites such as Tik Tok is already being restricted by the governments of some countries by banning the use, installation of this application of this portal on smartphones, laptops and other devices used for official purposes by employees of public institutions. Currently, among children and young people, the most popular social media include Tik Tok, Instagram and YouTube. The problem is more acute in the case of those social media which are among the most popular and on which mainly young people function, whose world view can be more easily influenced by factual information and other disinformation techniques used on the Internet. The various social media, including those dominating this segment of new online media, however, differ considerably in this respect. The spread of disinformation on social media used by setting up fake profiles and spreading fakenews on these media is becoming increasingly dangerous in terms of the security of not only specific companies and institutions but also the state.

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