Daily Monitor Monday January 18 2021 Last week we went to the polls to choose our leaders for the period 2021-2026. Every election season affords us an opportunity to look back on the previous one, see if there are lessons and what can be done differently. Looking back on 2016, and what we have been seeing during this election circle, especially the broken relationship between the media and the State or some of its representatives, one could say we should have seen it coming. Digital media, known as the application of text, audio, video and graphics transmitted over the Internet or computers, have tested the limits of free speech in new ways for Ugandans, and forced regulators into unknown spaces. It has defined the way critical messages reach the electorate, and the impression created for international actors.