Date: August 29th, 2026 6:22 AM Author: marvelous piazza national security agency
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the company’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
Over bagels and coffee in an Art Deco office on Tennessee’s Capitol grounds, Chris Mahoney, Meta’s chief legal officer, presented his terms, which Mr. Zuckerberg had personally approved, according to four people familiar with the negotiations.
“There’s a saying here in Tennessee,” Jonathan Skrmetti, the state’s attorney general, said in one of the meetings with nearly all the state attorneys general, encouraging them not to get greedy. “Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered.”