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said Tuesday that it hired former Microsoft
legal executive Curtis Joseph Mahoney to become its chief legal officer.
Mahoney will replace Meta’s previous head lawyer Jennifer Newstead, who announced in December that she would be leaving Meta to become Apple’s general counsel in March.
He joins Meta at a time when the company is facing a wave of child-safety related lawsuits around the country. That includes an ongoing case in New Mexico in which the state’s attorney general alleged that Meta failed to protect children from sexual abuse and human trafficking on its apps like Facebook and Instagram.
