Implementation of the “power of networks” concept by M. Castells during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is currently fueling ongoing digital transformation. The power of networks, which seemed to have reached its peak on the eve of the pandemic, was strengthened - new forms of social behavior, Covid populism, emerged. All this, on the one hand, puts on the agenda new debatable issues of the development of the digital environment, and on the other, the search for new ways to control it.