Under the Digital Services Act the likes of Meta and Google will be forced to combat misinformation, police their platforms for illicit content and restrict the targeting of minors with certain ads - or risk billions of dollars in fines.
So can we expect an end to online hate speech, terrorist propaganda of other material defined as illegal by the EU?
Johnny Ryan, a privacy-rights campaigner and senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Elaine Burke, Editor of Silicon Republic, talk to The Business.
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