Identity & Authority: WIRED – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

WIRED

(https://wired.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: June 20, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect 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.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
14 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
93% Reputation

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
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@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": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.wired.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
            "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "ItemList",
        "itemListElement": [
            {
                "@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
            },
            {
                "@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
            },
            {
                "@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
            }
        ],
        "numberOfItems": 20,
        "mainEntityOfPage": {
            "@context": "https://schema.org",
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        }
    }
]
/category/gear/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "ItemList",
    "itemListElement": {
        "0": {
            "@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": 1
        },
        "1": {
            "@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": 2
        },
        "2": {
            "@context": "https://schema.org",
            "@type": "ListItem",
            "name": "The Best Art TVs",
            "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/best-art-tvs/",
            "position": 3
        },
        "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
        },
        "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
        },
        "_items_truncated": true
    },
    "numberOfItems": 71,
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "CollectionPage",
        "description": "WIRED Reviews | WIRED",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/category/gear/",
        "name": "WIRED Reviews",
        "publisher": {
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "copyrightHolder": {
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "copyrightYear": "2026"
    },
    "_truncated": true,
    "_original_size": 14081
}
/newsletter/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/category/security/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "ItemList",
    "itemListElement": {
        "0": {
            "@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
        },
        "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
        },
        "_items_truncated": true
    },
    "numberOfItems": 39,
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "CollectionPage",
        "description": "Security News: Cybersecurity, Hacks, Privacy, National Security | WIRED",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/category/security/",
        "name": "Security",
        "publisher": {
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "copyrightHolder": {
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "sourceOrganization": {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://www.wired.com"
        },
        "copyrightYear": "2026"
    },
    "_truncated": true,
    "_original_size": 10221
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
2130Review mentions (all pages)
4External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 336 1
/category/gear/ 1249 1
/newsletter/ 293 1
/category/security/ 252 1