WIRED
(https://wired.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: June 20, 2026Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.
Authority is backed by a massive digital footprint of named experts. The metadata and schema_json for the Organization and ItemList are technically sound, and the content lists multiple reporters per story, indicating a high-resource newsroom. There is no ‘Technical Credibility Gap’; the technical implementation of the site matches its claim of being a tech-culture authority.
The site avoids standard marketing performance claims in favor of journalistic reporting. Disconnects are non-existent because the ‘claims’ are actually reported facts (e.g., ‘1 in 4 World Cup Matches Could Be Played in Dangerous Temperatures’) backed by referenced reports. The marketing tone is secondary to the informational utility of the content.
Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.
🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
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"@type": "Organization",
"name": "WIRED",
"logo": {
"@type": "ImageObject",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/verso/static/wired-us/assets/newsletter-signup-hub.jpg",
"width": "500px",
"height": "100px"
},
"url": "https://www.wired.com"
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "https://www.wired.com",
"name": "WIRED",
"headline": "WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business",
"potentialAction": {
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"target": "https://www.wired.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
"query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
}
},
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ItemList",
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{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/",
"position": 1
},
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "An Open Strait of Hormuz Won’t Fix Gas Prices Overnight",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/an-open-strait-of-hormuz-wont-fix-gas-prices-overnight/",
"position": 2
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Prediction Market Philosophers Got What They Wanted. They’re Not Happy About It",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/prediction-market-philosophers-got-what-they-wanted/",
"position": 3
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Most Promising Ebola Vaccine Has Been Sitting on the Shelf for 15 Years",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-vaccine-sitting-on-shelf-for-15-years/",
"position": 4
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Canada Missed Chances to Inspect OceanGate’s *Titan* Before Fatal Implosion",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/canada-missed-chances-titan-fatal-implosion/",
"position": 5
},
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Pseudoscientific Cancer ‘Treatment’ Involves Gassing Naked People in Plastic Bags With Bleach",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/pseudoscientific-cancer-treatment-involves-gassing-naked-people-in-plastic-bags-with-bleach/",
"position": 6
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Gen Z Singles Are Trying to Make ‘Solomaxxing’ Aspirational",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/solomaxxing/",
"position": 7
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-meta-ai-workers-revolting-peter-thiel-secret-society-sbf-plea-to-trump/",
"position": 8
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best iPad to Buy (and a Few to Avoid)",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/",
"position": 9
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems for WFH, Gaming, and Streaming",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-mesh-wifi-routers/",
"position": 10
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best Art TVs",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-art-tvs/",
"position": 11
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best Fitness Trackers for Reliable Health and Activity Data",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-fitness-trackers/",
"position": 12
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Future of Home",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/future-of-home/",
"position": 13
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-house-petaluma/",
"position": 14
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/ai-assisted-parametric-insurance-climate-change/",
"position": 15
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/sensi-ai-seniors-home-care-aging-in-place/",
"position": 16
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "What Do Americans Spend on Housing?",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/home-survey-renters-homeowners-affordability-crisis/",
"position": 17
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "This World Cup, Bigger Might Not Really Be Better",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/biggest-world-cup-travel-flights-hotels-costs/",
"position": 18
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Locked Out of the World Cup: A Year Marked by Barriers, Borders, and Broken Access",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/locked-out-world-cup-america-visas-fans/",
"position": 19
},
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "For Iran’s Athletes, There Is No Separating Sports From Politics",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/iran-world-cup-sports-politics/",
"position": 20
}
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"@type": "CollectionPage",
"@id": "https://www.wired.com"
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]
/category/gear/
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"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best iPad to Buy (and a Few to Avoid)",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/",
"position": 1
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"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems for WFH, Gaming, and Streaming",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-mesh-wifi-routers/",
"position": 2
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"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The Best Art TVs",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-art-tvs/",
"position": 3
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"3": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "An Open Strait of Hormuz Won’t Fix Gas Prices Overnight",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/an-open-strait-of-hormuz-wont-fix-gas-prices-overnight/",
"position": 4
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"4": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Waymos Recalled Over Risk They’ll Drive at Speed Into Freeway Construction Zones",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-recalls-robotaxis-over-risk-theyll-drive-at-speed-into-freeway-construction-zones/",
"position": 5
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"@type": "CollectionPage",
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"@id": "https://www.wired.com"
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/category/security/
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"@type": "ItemList",
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"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/",
"position": 1
},
"1": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-watch-the-knicks-parade-on-nyc-traffic-surveillance-cameras/",
"position": 2
},
"2": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/facial-age-estimate-uk-asylum-seekers/",
"position": 3
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"3": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/",
"position": 4
},
"4": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "ListItem",
"name": "‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What",
"url": "https://www.wired.com/story/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/",
"position": 5
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"description": "Security News: Cybersecurity, Hacks, Privacy, National Security | WIRED",
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"name": "Security",
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"@id": "https://www.wired.com"
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"copyrightHolder": {
"@id": "https://www.wired.com"
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"@id": "https://www.wired.com"
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🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
| Page | Reviews | Proof links |
|---|---|---|
| / (home) | 336 | 1 |
| /category/gear/ | 1249 | 1 |
| /newsletter/ | 293 | 1 |
| /category/security/ | 252 | 1 |
This page presents a snapshot of public data from WIRED, captured on June 20, 2026, to show how machine logic reads Identity & Authority signals into an AI reputation evaluation.
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