No, the EDPD exempts news platforms. However, Google didn't want to be considered a news platform, because otherwise they'd be held responsible for their conte

No, the EDPD exempts news platforms. However, Google didn't want to be considered a news platform, because otherwise they'd be held responsible for their content. So you can't ask CNN to remove the article themselves, but you can (and people do) ask Google to remove those article from search results.