In the coming week, tech companies rush to comply with the EU's new content guidelines,

reports of progoshion's deaths per questions on Russia's Wagner Group,

and Afghanistan marks two years since the last U.S. troops evacuated.

It's August 24, 2003 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

Carl, I want to start by going online.

Back in November 2022, the European Union enacted what's known as its Digital Services Act,

which makes online social media platforms responsible for moderating harmful and illegal content shared by users and advertisers.

Tomorrow will be the deadline for major tech companies like meta, TikTok, Google, and X, formerly known as Twitter, to comply with the EU's new guidelines. Why is the

EU doing this and how much blowback are we seeing? So, Bob, you know, I think the questions are,

not that I would ever disagree with you about a question, are rather given the amount of hate speech,

election meddling and false information about vaccines and other malign content in the not-so-dark

corners of the internet. Is this regulation really going to be enough? And why aren't we in the

U.S. doing more about these problems? The goal of this legislation is to get the social media

companies and search engines and online retailers, Amazon is saying, why us to clean up their acts or face serious fines of up to 6% of their annual global

revenue, which really could mean billions of dollars?

And under the legislation, the EU has designated 19 companies to start.

These are the so-called very large online platforms or very large online search engines,

and you've mentioned some of them. And by tomorrow, Friday, they have to submit what are called

risk mitigation plans to these regulators. And the risks identified include amplification of

illegal content and disinformation, content that can affect freedom of expression

and media freedom, content that can affect minors' mental health, content that can promote

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