Abstract <p>The purpose of this article is to consider the main trends and contradictory socio-political processes that determine the formation of the digital elite in the modern public-power space. The paper shows that today a number of processes hidden from social observation and control are unfolding, related to the transformation of semantic and system-forming elements of the new power domination, which, according to the authors, leads to the actual formation of a new elite level and new “power alliances” that are only now entering the field of political reflection. The paper substantiates that modern research on the transformation of the socio-political environment records only general or specific trajectories of transition (transit) from one qualitative state of the system to a new type of power relations. The authors, considering key trends in the public sphere and divergent socio-political processes, come to the conclusion that the digital elite today is a rather contradictory and ambiguous political phenomenon, it is only being formed as a stable privileged group, and is at the stage of institutionalizing global or local digital power domination. Adapting to traditional institutions and developing new digital frameworks (digital platforms, metaverses, “engineering regulatory complexes,” etc.), representatives of the new digital elite concentrate in their hands the main tools and means of power and managerial influence, as well as introduce new forms of control over social, technological, energy, and other resources. In addition, becoming a leading actor in the socio-political process, the digital elite strives to form and maintain a favorable trajectory for the digital transformation of traditional political institutions, which will allow it not only to influence the definition of the public agenda but also to make the most important socially significant decisions. Furthermore, the work highlights a number of key trends in the development of the digital elite associated with the formation, on the one hand, of parallel “digital power,” new formats of power relations, and a new structure of power domination, and, on the other hand, of “power alliances” forming new consolidated socio-political actors emerging in public and latent spaces of socio-political interaction.</p>