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2025-03-05 -Great Cultural Revolution
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FiveThirtyEight Is Shutting Down
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[PJMedia] In a surprise move, Disney announced Wednesday that it's shutting down FiveThirtyEight as part of sweeping layoffs affecting approximately 200 positions — about 6% of its workforce — across ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks.
Stats guru Nate Silver founded FiveThirtyEight, once the darling of the left-wing polling establishment, in 2008 before licensing it to The New York Times. ESPN later acquired it and finally transferred it to ABC News.
Silver, who departed the site amid previous Disney/ABC layoffs in 2023, feigned shock at the news. "Oh geez, I just saw the news about 538," he said in a post on X. "My heart goes out to the people there. They were tremendously hard-working and produced a lot of extremely valuable data and insight for everyone who wants to understand politics better. They deserved much better."
Did they, though?
What Silver conveniently fails to mention is that FiveThirtyEight's credibility took a massive hit when it made the politically motivated decision to drop Rasmussen Reports polling from its analysis a year ago, citing bogus claims of conservative bias. Rasmussen went on to be one of the most accurate pollsters of the 2024 election, while FiveThirtyEight continued its tradition of getting major election calls wrong.
“It’s a good thing they are no longer relevant, because no matter how they started, or what the purpose is, they turned into a propaganda outlet that fails at its ONE job, by inserting additional bias, not removing it,” Mark Mitchell, the chief pollster of Rasmussen Reports, told PJ Media. “It’s clear their only current purpose is as a regime information gatekeeper.”
The closure will eliminate approximately 15 jobs across the news site. G. Elliott Morris, editorial director of data analytics who currently leads FiveThirtyEight, confirmed the layoffs.
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