Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. Then a series of burner accounts on X started proliferating explicit, nonconsensual videos of her. This week, Zoë Schiffer sits down with WIRED’s senior writer Ej Dickson to discuss the burnerverse, a sprawling, loosely organized network of anonymous accounts that have turned
Just past 6 pm on a recent Wednesday night, half a dozen pet owners logged into a Zoom meeting to confess something they’re afraid to talk about in public: They’re fed up with their dogs. Before discussion began, Louise Crane, the president and cofounder of Dogs Anonymous, the organization hosting the meeting, recited the seven
Anonymous Content has hired Steve Shikiya to serve as the management company’s chief operating officer. In his new role, Shikiya will report directly to Anonymous president and CEO Darren Walker. He will oversee day-to-day business operations, including finance, corporate development, business affairs, and human resources. “Steve has spent his career helping ambitious, independent companies like
Emmy voting is now closed, and not a moment too soon. Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy. And every year, almost none of them
Darren Walker may be new to Los Angeles as he takes the helm of Anonymous Content as president and CEO, but he’s had long relationships with key players in town for years, given his distinguished career in philanthropy and nonprofits. Sally Field is one of those people. So Walker was excited to learn when he
