WIRED On-Background Policy

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Many powerful companies make a practice of obfuscating or dodging accountability when speaking to media outlets by providing information while insisting it not be attributed to anyone in particular, and sometimes not even to the company itself. For that reason, WIRED is joining the Verge, Quartz, and others in making its editorial standards clearer. Anyone talking to WIRED reporters in any official capacity does so on the record by default. This means that what you say or…