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Semafor

American news website
Organization online_newspaper Q112966863
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Summary

Semafor is an online newspaper[1]. Semafor ranks in the top 6% of online newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,641 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Founder: Ben Smith[4], Justin B. Smith[5]
  • Chief executive officer: Justin B. Smith[6]
  • Commons category: Semafor[7]
  • Language of work or name: English[8]
  • Country of origin: United States[9]
  • Inception: 2022[10]
  • Official website: https://www.semafor.com/[11]
  • Title: Semafor[12]
  • Editor-in-chief: Ben Smith[13]
  • Social media followers: 12,728[14], 6430[15], 8440[16], 10,400[17], 11,100[18], 12,500[19], 13,800[20], 19,900[21], 21,900[22]

Why It Matters

Semafor is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

online newspaper United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_semafor_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Semafor}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/semafor}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
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  1. 16w ago · Trivialist · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bluesky handle → —
    Editor-in-chief → Ben Smith
    X (twitter) username → semafor
    Tiktok username → semafor
    + 52 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Semaphor"
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