Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet
SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTThousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the InternetThe 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.Listen · 6:12 min Share full articleNate Silver, center, in 2015.
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2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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NYT — Politics files mainly under politics. We currently carry 85 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | NYT — Politics |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/business/media/fivethirtyeight-abc-removed.html |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 22:15:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T22:20:19.024Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T22:20:19.520Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | sKzsU7ipSsrj · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTThousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the InternetThe 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.Listen · 6:12 min Share full articleNate Silver, center, in 2015. Mr. Silver founded FiveThirtyEight as a blog in 2008 before building it into a highly influential polling analysis operation. Credit...Andrew Toth/Getty Images North AmericaBy John S.W.
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