“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy, it goes further than many autocracies.” This Tweet by Edward Snowden is a reaction to the recent Investigatory Powers Act, which passed last Thursday with minimal media attention and very little resistance from the parliament.

On 16 November, the Future Media Lab. hosted Future Media Lounge session in the European Parliament. This session focused on the review of the Audiovisual Services Media Directive and the impact this legislation could potentially have on press publishers.

While many democrats were sitting back in their chairs and getting ready to celebrate, positive poll results popping up on their news feeds, the change in the course of the election as Republican Candidate Donald Trump unexpectedly won crucial swing state after crucial swing state came as a massive surprise to most observers, most of all to those who had been reporting on it.