This year, the most prominent actors weighing in on the side of disruption were familiar faces: The reckless oligarchs, cybercriminals, scammers, and state-sponsored hackers who made the internet feel particularly dangerous in 2024 were, to some degree, the same forces destabilizing the online world in 2023.
Musk now uses his megaphone of 200-million-plus followers on X, the social media platform he fully controls, to broadcast an unrelenting stream of anti-regulation, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender, anti-press, anti-progressive talking points.
The online experience of 2024 was messy, hazardous, and Hobbesian. And for the most part, the people who made it that way are poised to exert even more influence over the year to come.
As we do every year, WIRED has assembled a list of the most dangerous people, groups, and organizations on the internet. Here are our picks for 2024.
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