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New Mexico AG Pushes Bills After Meta’s $567M Ruling

8/17/2026

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  • New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is moving forward with legislation after a judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million.
  • A March jury fined Meta $375 million for child sexual exploitation and mental-health harms, raising its total liability to $942 million.
  • Torrez’s draft bills would eliminate penalty caps for consumer-protection violations and extend regulation to AI chatbots.
  • Torrez says the AI-chatbot lawsuit has drawn interest from other states, with potential damages exceeding $1.4 trillion.