This month’s edition of the Media Policy Briefing brings you our reporting from Web Summit, a major technology conference held last week in Lisbon, Portugal. Below you will also find our review of discussions around Facebook's role in the US presidential elections, as well as an account of news media's soul-searching in the wake of Trump's victory.

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Suggested reading

• Lost in the splinternet: This long and thorough article discusses the challenges of internet governance, exacerbated by the attempts to apply national laws and regulations across borders. (The Economist)

• Europe’s new privacy regime will disrupt the adtech Lumascape: The upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may upend the online advertising ecosystem. (PageFair)

Updates from our media policy blog

• Google’s DNI hands out €24 million to 124 projects in second round of funding
• Concerns mount over net neutrality and surveillance in the wake of Trump’s victory
• German data protection authorities reviewing companies' cross-border data flows
• Privacy Shield court challenge expected to have broad impact

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