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There's a difference between propaganda convincing people not to vote vs. voter suppression legally preventing them from doing so. Like it or not, I think propaganda is an inescapable reality of the world we live in, and I don't see any way to stop it without also suppressing speech. Truth in reporting laws would certainly help, but a huge amount of it is disseminated via social media by users.
Laws removing the ability to vote from a population that disproportionately skews politically in one direction or who are disproportionately of specific ethnicities is far more insidious and should be preventable.
I have no proof or sources to back me up but I feel voter suppressing propaganda is as big of a problem but nevertheless eighty million eligible votes didn't exercise their rights to do so and that's almost inexcusable.
I agree with you that it's a huge problem; I'm just not sure we have a simple / viable solution. Elon Musk can post something on Twitter that's verifiably, indisputably wrong, and you can have 100,000 people posting hard evidence proving that it's wrong, but Elon's reach is greater than all 100k of them combined. It's essentially impossible to counter social media propaganda as a result, and that was the case even before he owned the platform it's being disseminated on.