Taking the Long View - 2/18/25

Calendar

NEW

• Mid-March - V-Dem Democracy Report 2025

• April 13 - Ecuador Electoral Runoff

• May 14-15, 2025 - IDU Forum, Brussels

Topics to keep an eye on

• Steve Scalise: 2025 House Calendar

• Punchbowl: US Senate Calendar

• Trust & Safety Global Events Calendar

• Facebook 2020 election research

  • 6/16 have been published

• TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped

Upcoming Dates

• February 18-21, 2025 - Leadership Institute Campaign Management School

• February 21-22, 2025 - DistrictCon

• February 23, 2025 - Germany snap election

• February 24, 2025 - TrustCon 2025 proposals due

• February 24-27, 2025 - RightsCon, Taiwan

• February 27, 2025 - Ontario Snap Election

• February 27, 2025 - Semafor: National Trust In News Summit

• March 2, 2025 - Guyana General Election

• March 3 (Week of) OR March 24, 2025 (Week of) - Deadline: Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks NPR And PBS CEOs To Testify At House Hearing On Alleged News Bias

• March 4, 2025 - Trump to address joint session of Congress

• March 4, 2025 - Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things: A Novel by Breanne Randall

• March 4, 2025 - Micronesia Election

• March 7-13, 2025 - SXSW

• Mid-March - V-Dem Democracy Report 2025

• March 15, 2025 - Federal Register: Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

• Mar 17-19, 2025 - Raisina Dialogue

• April 1, 2025 - Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen

• April 1, 2025 - Wisconsin Supreme Court election

• April 13 - Ecuador Electoral Runoff

• April 15, 2025 - Oakland, California Mayoral election

• April 14, 2025 - Meta antitrust case goes to trial

• April 23-25, 2025 - Cambridge Disinformation Summit 2025

• April 28-May 1, 2025 - RSA Conference 2025

• April 30 - May 1, 2025 - ElecTech

• May 2025 - Moldova Legislative Election

• May 2025 - Jamaica Election

• May 2025 - Nauru Election

• May 2025 - World Summit on the Information Society - 20 year review

• May 12, 2025 - Philippines General Election

• May 13-14, 2024 - Copenhagen Democracy Summit

• May 14-15, 2025 - IDU Forum, Brussels

• May 17, 2025 - Australia Federal Election

• May 18, 2025 - Poland Presidential Election

• May 20, 2025 - Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mayoral primaries

• May 25, 2025 - Suriname General Election

• June 2-7, 2025 - SXSW London

• June 4-5, 2025 - AI & Big Data Expo (North America)

• June 5, 2025 - Burundi Election

• June 10-11, 2025 - TICTeC 202

• June 10, 2025 - New Jersey gubernatorial primary

• June 11, 2025 - Albania Parliamentary Election

• June 17, 2025 - Virginia gubernatorial primary

• June 24, 2025 - New York mayoral primary

• August 5, 2025 - Detroit mayoral primary

• July 1-2, 2025 - Call for Papers & Panels - ‘We, the People’ and the Future of Democracy: Interdisciplinary Approaches

• July 21-23, 2025 - TrustCon 2025

• July 22, 2025 - White House AI "action plan" due

• August 7-10, 2025 DEF CON

• August 17, 2025 - Bolivia General Election

• August 18-22, 2025 - Leadership Institute Campaign Management School

• September 8, 2025 - Norway Election

• September 9, 2025 - All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert

• September 16, 2025 - Malawi Election

• September 27, 2025 - Seychelles Election

• September 28, 2025 - Germany Election

• September 30, 2025 - Emily Baker-White: Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over Tiktok

• October 2025 - Czech Parliamentary Election

• October 2025 - Qatar Election

• October 2025 - Côte D'Ivoire Election

• October 1-3, 2025 - Athens Democracy Forum

• October 5, 2025 - Cameroon Election

• October 20, 2025 - Canada Election

• October 26, 2025 - Argentina Election

• October 27, 2025 - Ireland Election

• November 2025 - Honduras Election

• November 4, 2025 - Off-year elections in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, Miami, San Antonio and St. Louis amongst others

• November 16, 2025 - Chile Election

• 2025 - Barbados Election

• 2025 - Belize Election

• 2025 - Central African Republic Election

• 2025 - Egypt Election

• 2025 - Guinea Election

• 2025 - Niger Election

• 2025 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Election

• 2025 - Singapore Election

• 2025 - Tajikistan Election

• 2025 - Tanzania Election

• 2025 - Tonga Election

• 2025 - Trinidad and Tobago Election

• 2025 - Venezuela Election

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