Yes, it's true.
Both upload filters and the “link tax” were accepted by the parliament with only minor changes.
Technically, the process is not over yet, now the “negotiations” go into the trilogue in Spring 2019, but given that the commission, the member states and the parliament are all for these rules (i.e. anti-freedom), it's more a technicality than anything else.
Note it's a directive and not in force
yet. The EU member states still have to adopt it into real law. That might still give us a couple of months to adopt to the new reality.
I wonder if webforums like this one will be affected by this. Since you can technically “upload texts”. Websites like OpenGameArt will almost certainly affected, as upload filters are a direct attack on them. Unless they not EU-based.
Sadly, it's not a big surprise, given the protests on the streets were really tiny. The anti-ACTA protests were huge. Although this crap could be probably called ACTA 2.0.
The fact that the “link tax” was adopted is especially infuriating. We
know for a fact that it doesn't earn publishers any money, so the main argument for it is already bullshit, it has been tried and failed in Germany and Spain. That's not just anti-freedom, that's also anti fact-based policy-making.
It's nice to see that Gab founder basically instantly announced to fight back.