Behind Netflix’s polished rhetoric, in which it presents itself as a global economic powerhouse, Texas’s legal offensive aims to dismantle a narrative that masks far less virtuous practices. The Texas attorney general condemns the platform’s addictive interface design and massive data collection. While Netflix frames its messaging around its role as a global economic powerhouse, the reality of its attention-grabbing and data-collection practices is facing a major legal challenge. Texas, through its attorney general, is dismantling the streaming…