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@WIRED

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122 articles – decelerating

The 2025 AI Film Festival, Starlink use in Myanmar scam compounds, and Signal’s encrypted-backup plans show WIRED spanning AI culture, digital abuse, and privacy infrastructure.

Who they are

WIRED appears in this corpus as a technology publication whose reporting connects major platforms and emerging technologies to their social, political, and security consequences. Its stories range from Google’s workplace AI use and WhatsApp’s anti-censorship proxy support to investigations of online scams, harassment, and internet access.

The recent arc

The subsequent period shifts toward accountability reporting and profiles of institutions operating at technology’s edges. Recent WIRED stories examine Starlink connectivity in Myanmar scam compounds, Telegram groups used to target women from Facebook dating-warning groups, Signal’s planned encrypted backups, the Internet Archive’s copyright fight, and the cultural debate around Runway AI-backed film. The throughline is less product-launch coverage than scrutiny of how infrastructure, platforms, and AI are used, governed, or contested.

The tension

The coverage repeatedly circles a conflict between technology as an access or productivity tool and technology as a channel for power, surveillance, abuse, or exclusion. WhatsApp and Signal are framed around resilient private communication, while Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Starlink, and Google appear in stories about platform policy, harassment, monetization, AI adoption, and unequal access; Russia and Ukraine add the geopolitical stakes of that infrastructure.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, WIRED’s significance in the coverage is as a venue linking technical change to the institutions and people affected by it, rather than treating AI, social platforms, and connectivity as isolated product categories. The open question is whether platform operators and policymakers will make privacy, accessibility, language equity, and abuse prevention durable features of these systems, or leave those problems to users, volunteers, and investigators.

@WIRED has appeared in 122 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Google, Mastodon, Facebook, Twitter.

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Coverage Timeline

2023-04-26
Wired

How Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a fair use case before SCOTUS, could impact how copyright law is applied to what AI tools can do with human-made works

and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI https://www.wired.com/... Touradj Ebrahimi / @touradjebrahimi : What War...

2022-07-17
Wired

Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites

Vittoria Elliott / Wired : Tweets: @carnage4life , @aaschapiro , and @aspi_icpc Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Social media apps have been wanting governments to craft laws related to conten...

2022-07-16
Wired

Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites

A ruling against the company could allow the government to censor a wide swath of platforms and set a global precedent. Tweets: @carnage4life , @aspi_icpc , and @aaschapiro Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @ca...

2021-06-24
Wired

Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes

Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @startpage and @wired Tweets: @startpage : The tools were used to “identify dissidents and activists, read their private emails and messages, and, in some cases, kidn...

2019-06-19
Wired

Inside Backpage.com's founders' legal fight with the federal prosecutors, which could reshape Section 230 protections for online platforms

IN MICHAEL LACEY'S younger and more vulnerable years, his father gave him this advice: “Whenever someone pokes a finger in your chest, you grab that finger and you break it off at the knuckle.” Tweets...

2018-09-12
Wired

Some US MVNOs are defending the Sprint/T-Mobile merger even though it reduces their leverage in negotiating deals because they can't risk alienating T-Mobile

Susan Crawford / Wired : Tweets: @scrawford Tweets: Susan Crawford / @scrawford : Why the T-Mobile/Sprint deal is awful news for low- and middle-income Americans - as Canada can tell us - latest for ...

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