[caractacus]

Er.... no. That's not what was passed by the EU.

The Copyright Directive is targeted at large "online content-sharing services" - in effect, services like YouTube, not messaging apps - and says that they are liable for what they host. This means that (1) they need to seek a license for any copyrighted content and (2) if they can't do that, find out a way to stop the copyrighted content from appearing.

Plus, member states are now in a two year period to get all this stuff into national law. So nothing is required right now, and chat apps are firmly and completely off limits for this legislation.

[word-reader]

This isn't the same thing as the copyright directive. There is some ambiguity in the proposal about whether they would have to filter things that are shared privately (as opposed to posted publicly). But it repeatedly uses phrases like "uploaded to the service" which implies that things like Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and so on would be covered.