§ 143A.008.Action by Attorney General

The public enforcement route, running alongside the private one.

Subsection (a): any person may notify the attorney general of a violation or potential violation by a social media platform.

"Any person" is unrestricted — the notifier need not be a user, need not have been censored, and need not have any connection to Texas.

Subsection (b): the attorney general may bring an action to enjoin a violation or a potential violation. If the injunction is granted, they may recover costs and reasonable attorney’s fees and reasonable investigative costs.

"Potential violation" appears in both subsections, which is notable. The attorney general may act before any censorship has occurred — an anticipatory power most enforcement provisions do not confer.

The remedy is injunctive only. There is no civil penalty here, unlike the age verification chapter, which supplies per-day penalties and a large additional amount.

That difference reflects the chapters’ different aims: one seeks compliance with a conduct rule, the other punishes and deters.

Investigative costs are recoverable in addition to fees, which matters where establishing a moderation pattern requires substantial work before suit.

The two enforcement routes are independent, and the private remedy provision says so expressly: a user may sue regardless of what has happened to the attorney general’s enforcement authority in another court.