Fortunately social media and regular media start to see that they have a responsibility for removing false information
That is utterly sick and twisted.
Journalists are not supposed to be the guardians of truth! They are not the watchdogs of the population, they are the watchdogs of the powers that be!
God dammit I utterly, utterly despise the idea of information providers limiting access to information based on what they
believe to be true or factual. It is not their right, nor their responsibility.
or at least tagging information as not being verified
Now that is perfectly reasonable, and something any respectable journalist always does. I agree.
or at least tagging information as not being true
Do you not realize that those you demand should limit others' access to information are just as fallible as everyone else?
Think of the situation where 98% of those working at the media you can access easily were Trumpists. Would you feel okay accepting
their definition of truth as your own?
Hell, regardless of what kind of political views those people have, why on Earth would you accept their definition of truth as your own anyway?
Or is it that you are comfortably stuck with your own views that no data can shake, and you're worried about what
other people might consider to be the truth, and limit that?
Anyone can set up an "intelligence-gathering outfit" in their Mom's garage like Bellingcat, and construct a circle of actors to provide enough references to make any kind of claim and label it "true" by referring to each other. That's how most "fact checkers" work.
What I want, is everybody to acknowledge that they never, ever have all the facts. It is not the purpose nor the right of a news house or social media to limit the exchange of information, especially to some arbitrarily politically defined subset they deem "true". (Especially since in the last few years, quite a few of the "conspiracy theories" from Trump's election being a result of Russian manipulation, to Hunter Biden's laptop and its damning evidence of the Biden family money-for-power politics, have now been shown to be factual, contrary to what majority of media insisted at the time. Fact is, no pun intended, that "fact checking" has nothing to do with verifiable facts, and everything to do with selecting which sources one wants to believe.)
Tagging is fine. Removing or region-restricting illegal content is fine. (It's up to the local population to decide what they consider illegal, in my opinion.)
But handing anyone the right to deem information as "not for the population to see or discuss" because is is not "true" is unbelievably fascist, authoritarian idea, that I will fight against. The hate speech laws here in EU are utterly ridiculous already, what with a Finnish former minister and current member of parliament being dragged through the courts for quoting the Bible. (I'm not actually Christian myself.)