Taking the Long View - 1/9/24
Lots of new events from the State of the Union, Supreme Court arguments and conference dates
We’re back, and boy, do we have a lot of new events on the calendar! The State of the Union was scheduled for March 7 - two days after Super Tuesday. The Supreme Court scheduled arguments for the Texas and Florida content moderation cases for February 26 and will hear arguments about whether or not states like Colorado can keep Trump off the ballot on February 8.
We’ve got some primary debates, conference dates, and book releases. All of it is below!
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Calendar
🚨 NEW 🚨
January 10, 2024 - CNN GOP Primary Debate, Iowa
January 10, 2024 - Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing: Oversight of A.I.: The Future of Journalism
January 11, 2024 - Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse documentary release on Sky
January 16, 2024 - Final legal text of AI bill in the EU could be released (According to Morning Tech)
January 18, 2024 - ABC News GOP Primary Debate, New Hampshire
January 21, 2024 - CNN GOP Primary Debate, New Hampshire
January 30, 2024 - Committee on House Administration hearing titled, “Artificial Intelligence (AI): Innovations within the Legislative Branch.”
February 8, 2024 - Supreme Court arguments regarding Trump being allowed on ballot
February 16, 2024 - Media and January 6th, Edited by Edited by Khadijah Costley White, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C. McGregor, and Rebekah Trombl
February 21 - 24, 2024 - Conservative Political Action Conference
February 26, 2024 - Supreme Court hears arguments in Texas and Florida cases (Moody v NetChoice)
March 7, 2024 - U.S. State of the Union Address
March 12, 2024 - The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age by Sasha Issenberg
March 19 - 20, 2024 - Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference, Accra, Ghana
April 3 - 5, 2024 - IDU Spring Forum, Wellington, New Zealand
July 26, 2024 - Olympics Opening Ceremony
November 12 - 15, 2024 - International Association of Political Consultants, Athens, GA
November 14, 2024 - UK Election (Tentative)
December 3 - 5, 2024 - IDU Winter Forum, Washington, DC
December 11, 2024 — U.S. deadline for issuing and sending Certificates of Ascertainment
December 17, 2024 — U.S. Electors vote
January 6, 2025 — U.S. Congress counts electoral votes
January 20, 2025 — U.S. Inauguration
Topics to keep an eye on:
Supreme Court arguments during this term
Texas and Florida content moderation bills
January 23, 2023 - Amici in support of Florida/Texas
Missouri v Biden (Now Murthy v Missouri)
Feb 8 - Amicus briefs in support of respondents due
TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped
Upcoming Dates
January 13, 2024 – Taiwan election
January 15 - 19, 2024 - Davos, World Economic Forum
January 15, 2024 - Iowa GOP Caucus
January 15, 2024 - Trump E. Jean Carroll civil defamation suit
January 17, 2024 - R Street: EVENT - Online Content Moderation from the Trenches: Veterans Who Have Fought the Fight
January 23, 2024 - New Hampshire Primary
January 28, 2024 - Finland election
January 29, 2024 - Trump Pyramid scheme class-action suit
January 31, 2023 - Senate hearing on protecting kids online with tech CEO testimony
February 2, 2024 - TrustCon Proposal Deadline
February 3, 2024: South Carolina Democratic primary
February 4, 2024 – El Salvador election
February 6, 2024: Nevada Democratic Primary
February 8, 2024 – Pakistan election (delayed from 2023)
February 8, 2024 - Nevada GOP Caucus
February 8-10, 2024 - NASED Winter Conference
February 12, 2024 - State of the Net Conference
February 14, 2024 – Indonesia election
February 16 - 18, 2024 - Munich Security Conference
February 20, 2024 - Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul by Kurt Wagner
February 21 - 24, 2024 - Raisina Dialogue: Conference in India about geopolitics and geoeconomics put on by the Observer Research Foundation
February 24, 2024: South Carolina Republican primary
February 25, 2024 – Senegal election
February 25, 2024 – Belarus election
February 27, 2024: Michigan primary
February 27, 2024 - Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
March 2024 - Third Summit for Democracy
March 2, 2024: Michigan Republican caucus
March 4, 2024 - Trump Washington trial starts
March 5, 2024: Primaries in multiple states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Democrats Abroad
March 8, 2024 - Irish Referenda
March 8-16, 2024 - SXSW
March 12, 2024: Primaries in Hawaii (Republican caucuses), Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota (Democratic caucuses), Washington
March 17, 2024 – Russia election
March 19, 2024: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio primaries
March 25, 2024 - Trump NY State criminal hush money suit
March 31, 2024 – Ukraine election
March 31, 2024: Puerto Rico Democratic primary
April 2, 2024: Wisconsin primary
April 10, 2024 – South Korea election
April 16-18, 2024 - Government Social Media Conference
April 18-19, 2023 - German Marshall Forum Brussels Forum
April 23, 2024: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island primaries
April 23, 2024 - The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page
April 30, 2024: Connecticut primary
April 2024 – Solomon Islands election
April 2024 – Maldives election
May 5, 2024 – Panama election
May 7: Indiana primary
May 14, 2024: Nebraska, Maryland, West Virginia primaries
May 14-15, 2024 - Copenhagen Democracy Summit
May 16-17, 2024 - All Things in Moderation Conference
May 17, 2024 - TSPA EMEA Summit
May 19, 2024 – Dominican Republic election
May 20, 2024 - Trump trial on classified docs
May 21, 2024: Kentucky, Oregon primaries
June 2024 – Mongolia election
June 2, 2024 – Mexico election
June 4, 2024: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, District of Columbia primaries
June 6-9, 2024 - EU Parliament Elections
June 12 - 13, 2024 - TICTeC (The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference)
Mid-2024 - Final UN AI governance report
July 11 - 13, 2024 - Netroots Nation 2024
July 15 - 18, 2024 - Republican National Convention
July 22-24, 2024 - TrustCon 2024
July 23-26, 2024 - NASED Summer Conference
August 19 - 22, 2024 - Democratic Convention, Chicago
September 2024 - UN Summit of the Future
September 16, 2024 - First presidential debate, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
September 25, 2024 - Vice presidential debate, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
October 1, 2024 - Second presidential debate, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA
October 9, 2024 – Mozambique election
October 9, 2024 - Third presidential debate, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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 11-14, 2024 - Lisbon Web Summit
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
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