Tech giants will now have to comply with the European Union's new rules to combat hate.

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New EU Rule for Online Platforms Takes Effect

Not as some of the other business headlines that you need to know tech giants will now have to comply with Europe's groundbreaking new effort to clean up hate speech and misinformation online. As of today, the new rule, that's a part of the digital Services Act goes into effect. And this is really designed to protect users from illegal or harmful content that violates a platform's terms of service like the promotion of genocide or anorexia. It also looks to protect Europeans fundamental rights of privacy and free speech fines for not complying could be billions of dollars and in some companies, they've already made changes.