New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez's push to protect children online and hold social media companies like Meta accountable for the safety of minors on their platforms has been the subject of numerous stories in The New Mexican .

But his efforts reached a national audience with a glowing piece in Time .

The magazine described Torrez as an "unlikely antagonist for Big Tech."

"His sparsely furnished office in New Mexico is far from the campuses of Silicon Valley or the lawmakers and regulators in Washington," the magazine reported.

"Aside from a brief stint at a startup in his 20s, he has no connection to the tech industry. But he is waging a fierce crusade against the harms he says social-media companies are inflicting on minors," Time wrote about the 49-year-old career pro

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