Docket+ 12 January 2026

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Highlights

WATCH - Protect Democracy with Amanda Carpenter (Dog Shirt Daily, Benjamin Wittes, 8 January)

1. Truth telling in history classrooms: pedagogical responses to denialism and pseudohistory (T&F, 12 January)
2. The Trump Administration Targets Europe’s Content Moderation Laws (Lawfare, 12 January)
3. Iran’s internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time (The Guardian, 10 January)
4. War Powers, Venezuela, Drug Boats, and Congress (Just Security, 12 January)

LISTEN - What to Expect from US States on Child Online Safety in 2026 (Tech Policy Press, 11 January)

1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

1. Development Of An Attitude Scale Toward Censorship And Regulation Of Online Expression (Including Social Media) And Its Association With Intolerance Of Uncertainty: Validity Evidence From Institutional Trust And Right-Wing Authoritarianism (OSF, 30 December)
2. Conformity and Social Impact on AI Agents (arXiv, 8 January)
3. Twenty Years On: What WSIS+20 Means For International Digital Governance (Tech Policy Press, 9 January)

Images & Visualisations

1. Watering Down Watermarks: The Effectiveness Of Labeling Deepfakes (OSF, 23 December)
2. Tracking evolving communities in fake news cascades using temporal graphs (Nature, 9 January)
3. How AI-generated content increased disinformation after Maduro's removal (NPR, 10 January)