# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-wu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:55:32.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-wu"
name: "Tim Wu"
slug: "tim-wu"
description: "Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023. He is also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy, coining the phrase \"network neutrality\" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook."
tagline: "American legal scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Wu%2C_Campaign_Event%2C_Summer_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.844695588771418
  historical:           8.850297333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/superwuster"
    handle:    "superwuster"
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    url:       "http://www.timwu.org/"
sources:
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    title: "تيم وو"
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    title: "تيم وو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu"
    title: "Tim Wu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%88%D9%88"
    title: "تیم وو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu"
    title: "Tim Wu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tims_Vu"
    title: "Tims Vu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu"
    title: "Tim Wu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump