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Samantha Spengler
Research editor
Samantha Spengler is a research editor at WIRED and fact-checks longform features. Her writing has appeared in Philadelphia magazine, Washingtonian, and Smithsonian magazines. She earned a degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism. She was born in Chicago and is a Midwesterner at heart, though she currently lives in Philadelphia.