The Latest Breaking News from Tim Wu

Trump's New DOJ Nominee Wants To Ban Online Porn and Prosecute Big Tech

Adam Candeub has been nominated to head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

Reason · Jul 22

Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’

Sarah Wynn-Williams remained silent during her hour-long appearance, but sales of Careless People have since increased by more than 300%

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10

I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers

The company is clearly trying to make an example of the author who wrote about her time at the company. Her free speech should be protected, says Prof Tim Wu of Columbia University Law School

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9

Why the economy has that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: One of America’s top legal theorists on ‘the age of extraction’

“My understanding of America is that it’s the place where things are supposed to get better,” Columbia Law School’s Tim Wu told Fortune.

Fortune · Nov 30, 2025

The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

Albert Edwards says Zohran Mamdani’s policies are “lunacy,” but big companies “laid the seeds for their own destruction.”

Fortune · Nov 22, 2025

Biden adviser’s brutal two-word verdict after Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘Broken White House’ defection

Former colleagues are no longer holding back about her shortcomings as Biden’s top spokesperson

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2025

The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the US

Series of actions this week including at Princeton and in a tiny town, offer hope that courageous voices can make a difference

The Guardian - US · Apr 9, 2025

Ruling boosts social media free speech protections, some say - Roll Call

The Supreme Court’s decision on social media content moderation could expand protections for tech platforms under the First Amendment.

Roll Call · Jul 9, 2024

Judges Block Indiana and Mississippi Age Verification Laws for Porn, Social Media

And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.

Reason · Jul 3, 2024

A Law Professor's Beef With a First Amendment 'Spinning Out of Control': Too Much Speech of the Wrong Sort

Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.

Reason · Jul 2, 2024