DisinfoDocket 12 January 2026
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Highlights
- Trump calls the War Powers Act unconstitutional. No court has agreed (Poynter, 12 January)
- The Cost of Europe’s Weak Venezuela Response (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 6 January)
- UK launches formal investigation into X over ‘nudification’ of children images (The Record, 12 January)
- Trump’s quest for Greenland could be NATO’s darkest hour (Dispatches, Atlantic Council, 7 January)
1. Academia & Research
- The psychology of health (Nature, 12 January)
2. Platforms & Technology
- UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week (BBC, 12 January)
- Why Europe Could Block X Over Grok Scandal But Probably Won’t (Tech Policy Press, 12 January)
- Instagram denies breach after many receive emails asking to reset password (BBC, 12 January)
3. Russia & Ukraine
- ‘Maybe it’s time we started hiring American generals?’: Russia’s pro-war bloggers on the U.S. operation in Venezuela (Meduza, 5 January)
- Russian Propaganda Ramps Up After U.S. Raid in Venezuela (The New York Times, 8 January)