Patrick Penninckx, head of the Information Society department, has introduced the students of the European Institute of Journalism in Strasbourg to the latest Council of Europe policies on media freedom and internet governance. His presentation entitled “The digital transformation of the audio-visual media: a transformation in search of governance” outlined the key challenges facing society, such as fake news, hate speech, disinformation, abusive surveillance and theft of personal data, the rise of the artificial intelligence and the metaverse, manipulation of elections and proliferating cybercrime. It further explained the policy responses developed by the Council of Europe in the field of media governance, cooperation with internet companies, action against cybercrime, data protection and artificial intelligence.