With Meta's decision this week to end a fact-checking program on social media apps Facebook, Instagram and Threads, many are discussing what the ramifications are for an industry built to

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you consider Meta's decision to end a fact-checking program on social media apps Facebook,