Abstract:
Зважаючи на відсутність в українській правничій науці досліджень конституційноправових аспектів пропаганди як різновиду інформаційної діяльності, висвітлено особливості
здійснення конституційного права на інформацію в Україні в умовах воєнного стану в контексті
такої конституційної засади, як заборона пропаганди війни та іншої ворожнечі, із
протиставленням практики тоталітарних держав демократичним засадам адміністрування
інформаційної сфери. Здійснено ретроспективний аналіз інституту пропаганди у ХХ-ХХІ ст.
Зазначено, що зловживання конституційним правом на інформацію та свободою ЗМІ завжди
перетворюється на поступове вибудовування пропаганди, головним суб’єктом чого визнано
державу з авторитарним політичним режимом. The article deals
with peculiarities of the implementation of the constitutional right to information in Ukraine under martial law in the context of such a constitutional principle as the prohibition of propaganda of war and other
enmity, contrasting the practice of totalitarian states with the democratic principles of administration of
the information area. The lack of studies of constitutional and legal aspects of propaganda as a type of
information activity in Ukrainian jurisprudence has been pointed out. A retrospective analysis of the
institute of propaganda in the 20th-21st centuries has been carried out.
The author has concluded that the components of the implementation of such information
activity as propaganda are: subject (source of propaganda) and object, which has, for its part, two
varieties - a) to whom propaganda is directed (consumer and victim of propaganda) and b) against whom
the propaganda is directed (a notoriously demonized victim of propaganda).
Abuse of the constitutional right to information and freedom of the mass media always turns into a
gradual building of propaganda, which aims, through the manipulation of public opinion, on the one hand, to
make certain hostile, hateful images and narratives, on the other hand, requires the above-mentioned object
(b) taking counter-propaganda measures, but with the availability of appropriate resources. Propaganda is an
integral part of preparing and conducting wars, including information wars as an element of modern hybrid
wars. The most eloquent example of the struggle for modern mass consciousness with the involvement of
international actors was the russian military aggression against Ukraine.
The subject of further publications should be? As the author believes, the problems of the legal
conceptualization of propaganda and populism in the context of countering information wars, especially
using the achievements of the current stage of the information revolution – cyberspace and social networks.
