New Mexico’s liberal attorney general, who rose to prominence with the backing of liberal billionaire George Soros, appears to be using a data breach by Facebook to force the social media platform to reinstate content moderation policies it abandoned after the 2024 election.
A New Mexico jury last month found Meta, the parent company of Facebook, liable for making deceptive statements about millions of data breaches. The state’s attorney general Raúl Torrez has said it will seek the maximum $5,000 for each of the 43 million liability cases, which would amount to hundreds of billions o …