I get your concerns. I am just spitballin’, but if each form of social media had its on “community notes” and then that was occasionally audited, that that would be a good start.But once again, who gets to decide what's fake or not? Who is the arbiter of truth when you put those "protections" in place? Of course it's a slippery slope, that's my whole point, and it was the whole point of the 1A. When you allow the government to control what is seen, heard and read, you have tyranny and a manipulated populous.
I think opinions are fine on both sides, but if comments like “tourist are 3x likely to be assaulted in Kentucky” were to gain traction, that hurts the people of Kentucky. There just needs to be stopgaps, like community notes, to stop misinformation.
I really hate to say the SEC would have a part in this, but some sort of entity has to have teeth to force these media companies to stop misinformation and to discern misinformation and political opinions.