Misinformation "Superspreaders"

[ArMaP]

I just can't accept that people should "be restricted" in "sharing" whatever the hell they want.

I agree, people should not be restricted in what they share.
 

People lie.  The solution - Tell the truth.  End of story. 

I also agree, but what should be done about those sites that spread the initial lies? Many (or most) of the times it's not the politicians that spread the lies but the media, both the mainstream and the "alternative" media, as they both look for the same result: hits/shares.

One of the problems with today's mainstream media is that because of the speed of the Internet news they stopped checking if things are true or not, if someone reports it then they republish it.

One good example was a person that, on the 2022/2023 winter floods in Portugal posted on social media a video of a car, seen from above, with water reaching to the side windows, with the driver door opened. Then the camera shows a wider view and we see that it's just a toy car inside of a puddle.

Someone took that video and removed the end, and shared it as being from the floods in the Lisbon area.

Someone else at the highest selling newspaper decided to share those "amazing images" without fact checking. They were flooded with comments telling them the images were fake, so they took down the video from their site and announced they were make a formal complaint against the person that shared the shorter video with them (or the person that posted in on social media, I don't remember which).

Everybody should be responsible for what they publish and pay for the consequences of their acts.

For some reason do sites like this have provisions regarding the publishing of fake information on their rules.