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Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?

WIRED·Maxwell Zeff·about 1 month ago
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For fifty-one weeks out of the year, I’m 100 percent not the CEO of Snap, the company behind Snapchat . That’s Evan Spiegel , the company’s billionaire cofounder. No one in their right mind would question that. But for one week out of the year, specifically last week, some people may have thought I was the social media firm’s top executive. If you looked on Wikipedia , it sure seemed like I was. Starting on Sunday, when you clicked on Spiegel’s Wikipedia page , there was a picture of me. The same thing happened if you ran a Google Search for Evan Spiegel or asked Google Gemini about him. At the time of publication, that’s still the case. How did this happen? Despite what the internet might have you believe, I’m Maxwell Zeff (friends call me Max). The photo on Spiegel’s Wikipedia page was taken at a TechCrunch conference last year. I’m a reporter in my twenties, and while I write about technology companies for a living, I’ve never met Spiegel and have barely ever written about Snapchat.…

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