The EU commission retracts an article accusing opponents of the directive as bots. Fun fact: at least with Chrome from Germany i am unable to access the archive.org version which still shows the retracted article. It works with TOR, though.
archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035603/https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16
"Now" link: https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16