Formally Reliable Information in the Structure of Disinformation: Forensic Significance, Risks, and Mechanisms of Detection
( Pp. 82-88)
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Artur G. Kholevchuk
Cand. Sci. (Law), Assoc. Prof., Associate Professor of the Department of Humanities; Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kuban State University"
Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kuban State University" in Novorossiysk
; Novorossiysk, Russian Federation
Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kuban State University" in Novorossiysk
; Novorossiysk, Russian Federation
Abstract:
Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of formally reliable information as a structural element of disinformation in criminal proceedings. The aim of the work is to identify their forensic significance, identify the procedural and cognitive risks they generate, and develop recognition mechanisms in the evidence assessment system. The methodological basis of the study was system analysis, modeling, the provisions of the philosophy of science and the norms of criminal procedure legislation in their interpretation by judicial practice. It is argued that the formal procedural correctness of an evidentiary source is not identical to its factual truth and can act as a tool for legalizing a distorted informational and cognitive model of an event. The mechanism of the procedural legalization of the version is revealed, the influence of formally reliable information on the cognitive fixation of the evidence structure and the displacement of alternative explanations is shown. A typology of formally reliable information is proposed (testimony, expert opinions, documents, digital data), and their diagnostic features are identified. The scientific novelty consists in the theoretical identification of formally reliable information as an independent object of the private criminalistics theory of disinformation, as well as in the development of a model for their recognition, including dual evidence modeling, identification of hidden contradictions and analysis of information gaps. The results obtained expand the understanding of the mechanisms of formation of procedurally stable errors and can be used in evaluating evidence in investigative and judicial practice.
How to Cite:
Kholevchuk, A.G. (2026). Formally Reliable Information in the Structure of Disinformation: Forensic Significance, Risks, and Mechanisms of Detection. Gaps in Russian Legislation, 19(3), 82-88. DOI: 10.33693/2072-3164-2026-19-3-82-88. EDN: ZLQJDB
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Keywords:
disinformation, criminalistics, evidence, formally reliable information, procedural legalization, evaluation of evidence, criminal proceedings, cognitive risks, judicial practice, private criminalistics theory.
