# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-levy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:01:10.265Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-levy"
name: "Steven Levy"
slug: "steven-levy"
description: "Steven Levy is an American journalist and editor at large for Wired who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. He is the author of the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicles the early days of the computer underground. Levy has published eight books covering computer hacker culture, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and multi-year exposés of Apple, Google, and Facebook. His most recent book, Facebook: The Inside Story, recounts the history and rise of Facebook from three years of interviews with employees, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steven_Levy_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.38589333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "StevenLevy"
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    handle:    "stevenjayl"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1966248"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stevenlevy.com/"
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    title: "ستيفن ليفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steven Levy"
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    title: "Steven Levy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steven Levy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steven Levy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Steven Levy"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump