Digital literacy tools also come to mind. We were talking earlier about the importance of education. I provide training in corporate settings, and the people in my sessions tend to be what you'd call white-collar workers. These are pretty educated people, but they still ask me about litter boxes in schools.
What I'm trying to say is that people have access to so much information that it's sometimes hard to differentiate between what's true and what isn't. When it's something people read, they don't always distinguish between a real news article and a story.
We were talking about accountability. I would like to see media organizations citing their sources, and being more transparent and clear in how they report the information.
I would also like to see fact-checking tools. I encourage the participants in my training sessions to check the information. I know there are a lot of English-language tools, sites like Snopes, which I use. In French, the show “Décrypteurs” is an option people can use. Quebec's chief scientist wrote an article about trans women in sport, as well as one about the litter boxes in schools. However, it doesn't seem that the resources are familiar to everyone, and they don't necessarily cover everything.
I think one way to help counter disinformation is having individual media outlets or news sources taking a strong stance on the information they report. People would know they could trust the source of the information. They would know where to draw the line in terms of what is true and what is based on research and science.