"FiveThirtyEight articles were now completely offline and that the page now redirects to abcnews dot com/politics. The data sets included electoral political analysis across multiple presidential and midterm elections as well as sports. Rakich called the move a needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge in sharing the findings. ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge."
"BTW, I approached ABC about buying back the former FiveThirtyEight IP*, and they said they wouldn't sell at any price because I'd criticized their management of the brand. Costing Disney shareholders $$ b/c of their vindictiveness. * I own the models but the trademarks, etc."
"Silver slammed ABC's owners as a**holes for wiping the website's trove of valuable historical data from the internet entirely. The change was first reported by the award-winning website's former election analyst Nathaniel Rakich, now managing editor at Votebeat U.S., who noted that FiveThirtyEight articles were now completely offline and that the page now redirects to abcnews dot com/politics."
"FiveThirtyEight was bought over by ABC in 2018 but axed by the company in March 2025 as part of sweeping cuts by parent company Disney. The website began as an independent polling aggregation platform in 2008 before becoming a licensed feature at The New York Times. In 2013 it was acquired by ESPN before being transferred to ABC News."
FiveThirtyEight articles have been removed from public access and now redirect to abcnews.com/politics. The removed material included electoral political analysis across multiple presidential and midterm elections and also sports. Nathaniel Rakich said the change erased thousands of pages of knowledge and noted that the articles were completely offline. Nate Silver criticized ABC executives and Disney, calling the action vindictive and harmful to shareholders. Silver said he approached ABC to buy back the former FiveThirtyEight intellectual property but was refused because he had criticized ABC’s brand management. FiveThirtyEight was acquired by ABC in 2018, then shut down in March 2025 as part of Disney cuts.
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