Mark Zuckerberg considered acquiring or permanently funding the Associated Press to combat Facebook misinformation

• Mark Zuckerberg considered acquiring a major news outlet between 2017 and 2018.
• Facebook was facing intense scrutiny over its role in the 2016 election and misinformation.
• Zuckerberg’s focus turned to funding The AP and using it as a direct news source for Facebook.

Before Meta stepped away from nearly all its dealings with the news industry, Mark Zuckerberg considered getting more entangled with it than ever.