Taking the Long View - 10/24/23
I don’t know about you, but things are finally starting to feel like Fall, and I’m very much here for it.
Here are a few things to flag before we get to the calendar:
I joined Kara Swisher, Renee DiResta, and Shayan Sardarizadeh for the On with Kara Swisher podcast to talk about how the platforms are responding to the crisis in Israel.
Dean Jackson talks to the Lawfare podcast about the crisis facing efforts to counter election disinformation.
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Calendar
🚨 NEW 🚨
October 25, 2023 - House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing: The Global Engagement Center: Helping or Hurting U.S. Foreign Policy
October 30, 2023 - Deadline Extended: Public comments due to the US Copyright Office on AI
November 9, 2023 - Dole Institute, Whirlwind: What to Expect for Digital Democracy in 2024
November 19, 2023 - Argentina runoff election
December - EU-U.S. trade and tech summit, Washington, DC
Topics to keep an eye on:
Supreme Court arguments during this term
Texas and Florida content moderation bills
December 7, 2023 - Amici in support of NetChoice (or in support of neither party)
January 23, 2023 - Amici in support of Florida/Texas
Missouri v Biden (Now Murthy v Missouri)
TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped
Upcoming Dates
October 24, 2023 - Next Senate AI Forum
October 24, 2023 - Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
October 24-26, 2023 - Global Democracy Champions Summit: Preparing for the 2024 Mega Election Year
October 25, 2023 - Meta Q3 Earnings
October 29, 2023 - Mali election
October 31, 2023 - SCOTUS hears cases on government officials blocking people from engaging on their social media accounts
October 2023 – Gabon election
October 2023 – Ukraine election
October 2023 – Commission on Presidential Debates expected to announce 2024 dates and locations
Early November: African Association of Electoral Authorities adoption of Guidelines on how its members should deal with social media issues in elections
November 1-2, 2023 - UK AI Summit
November 2, 2023 - Apple FY 23 Q4 Results
November 3, 2023 - Obama Foundation Democracy Forum
November 6, 2023 - OpenAI Developer Conference
November 8, 2023 - Third GOP primary debate
November 9, 2023 - Madagascar election
November 14, 2023 – Book Release, Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
November 15, 2023 - Aspen Cyber Summit
November 20, 2023 – Marshall Islands election
November 29, 2023 – Argentina election
November 30, 2023 - DeSantis/Newsom FOX Debate
November 30, 2023 - National Conference on Citizenship - 2023 Annual Conference on Citizenship: The Future of Citizenship
December 1-3, 2023: Build Peace 2023 Conference
December 12, 2023 - CampaignTech Innovation Summit
December 20, 2023 – Democratic Republic of the Congo election
December 2023 –Togo election
2023 or 2024 – Peru election
TBD – Dominica election
TBD – Myanmar election
TBD – Gabon election
TBD – Haiti election
TBD – Libya election
2024
January 15, 2024 - Iowa GOP Caucus
January 15, 2024 - Trump E. Jean Carroll civil defamation suit
January 29, 2024 - Trump Pyramid scheme class-action suit
January 2024 – Bangladesh election
January 13, 2024 – Taiwan election
January 28, 2024 - Finland election
February 4, 2024 – El Salvador election
February 8, 2024 - Nevada GOP Caucus
February 14, 2024 – Indonesia election
February 25, 2024 – Senegal election
February 25, 2024 – Belarus election
February 27, 2024 - Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
February 2024 – Pakistan election (delayed from 2023)
March 2024 - Third Summit for Democracy
March 4, 2024 - Trump Washington trial starts
March 8-16, 2024 - SXSW
March 17, 2024 – Russia election
March 25, 2024 - Trump NY State criminal hush money suit
March 31, 2024 – Ukraine election
April 10, 2024 – South Korea election
April 16-18, 2024 - Government Social Media Conference
April 23, 2024 - The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
April 2024 – Solomon Islands election
April 2024 – Maldives election
May 5, 2024 – Panama election
May 19, 2024 – Dominican Republic election
May 20, 2024 - Trump trial on classified docs
June 2024 – Mongolia election
June 2, 2024 – Mexico election
June 6-9, 2024 - EU Parliament Elections
July 15 - 18, 2024 - Republican National Convention
July 22-24, 2024 - TrustCon 2024
August 19 - 22, 2024 - Democratic Convention, Chicago
October 9, 2024 – Mozambique election
October 27, 2024 – Uruguay election
October 2024 – Chad election
November 2024 – Guinea Bissau election
November 2024 – Moldova election
November 2024 – Romania election
November 5, 2024 – United States of America election
November 12, 2024 – Palau election
December 2024 – Croatia election
TBD – Algeria election
TBD – Austria election
TBD – Belgium election
TBD – Botswana election
TBD – Burkina Faso election
TBD – Chad election
TBD – Comoros election
TBD – Croatia election
TBD – Dominica election
TBD – Egypt election
TBD – Ethiopia election
TBD – Georgia election
TBD – Ghana election
TBD – Iceland election
TBD – India election
TBD – Iran election
TBD – Jordan election
TBD – Kiribati election
TBD – Kuwait election
TBD – Lithuania election
TBD – Madagascar election
TBD – Mauritania election
TBD – Mauritius election
TBD – Montenegro election
TBD – North Korea election
TBD – North Macedonia election
TBD – Romania election
TBD – Rwanda election
TBD – San Marino election
TBD – Slovakia election
TBD – South Africa election
TBD – South Sudan election
TBD – Syria election
TBD – Tunisia election
TBD – United States of America election
TBD – Uzbekistan election
TBD – Venezuela election
2025
2025: RightsCon, South Korea