Thousands of US polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight Articles seemingly vanish from the internet
Thousands of articles from the polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight have become inaccessible online following its shutdown by ABC News. The site, known for its data-driven election analyses, has redirected users to ABC News' political page. Many former staff members, including founder Nate Silver, have expressed disappointment over the loss of their work.
- ▪FiveThirtyEight articles dating back to 2008 are no longer available online.
- ▪The site has been redirected to ABC News following its shutdown in March 2025.
- ▪Former staff members have reported losing access to their published work, with one editor noting that around 700 of his articles are among the lost content.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet — NYT — Politics
Straits Times — World files mainly under world. We currently carry 1,485 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | Straits Times — World |
| Canonical URL | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/thousands-of-fivethirtyeight-articles-seemingly-vanish-from-the-internet |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 09:10:00 +0800 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T01:15:19.047Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T01:15:19.047Z |
| 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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For subscribersThousands of US polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight Articles seemingly vanish from the internetSign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxThousands of articles stretching back to FiveThirtyEight’s founding in 2008 are no longer accessible online.PHOTO: FIVETHIRTYEIGHT/FACEBOOKJohn S.W. MacDonaldPublished May 17, 2026, 09:10 AMUpdated May 17, 2026, 09:12 AMListenAn 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 Mr Nathaniel Rakich, a former senior staff editor at the publication.ABC…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Straits Times — World.