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Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet

NYT > Business > Media · John S.W. MacDonald · last updated

The influential polling analysis site was shut down last year, but an earlier archived version, fivethirtyeight.com, had lived on. Now the site is redirecting users to ABC News.

An archived website of FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism publication known for its polling analysis and election models, is now redirecting readers to ABC News, its owner and former host. As a result, many thousands of articles stretching back to FiveThirtyEight’s founding in 2008 are no longer accessible online, according to Nathaniel Rakich, a former senior staff editor at the publication.

ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight, which was founded by the election analyst and forecaster Nate Silver and specialized in data-driven analyses of elections, sports and other subjects, in March 2025. But an earlier stand-alone version of the publication, fivethirtyeight.com — discontinued in 2023, when FiveThirtyEight merged with ABCNews.com — had been archived and remained accessible online.

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