It's not just pressure from the EU, a lot of it is also coming from the USG [0], that's why Google, and pretty much any other major US-based social media, have outsourced a lot of content moderation to small armies of shadow-moderators in the Philippines [1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644607908/facebook-twitter-he...

[1] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...