FiveThirtyEight Founder Nate Silver Leaving ABC News as Disney Layoffs Continue

Variety ^ | 4/25/23 | Ethan Shanfield

[CFW]

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver is exiting ABC News as The Walt Disney Company ramps up layoffs, Variety has confirmed.

ABC News will hold onto the FiveThirtyEight brand with plans to streamline the statistics-driven news and analysis site. The network plans to create a more efficient structure for FiveThirtyEight leading into the 2024 presidential election and beyond.

Silver sent a message to his team in a company Slack channel warning that the Disney layoffs would impact FiveThirtyEight, and that Silver is not planning to return after his contract ends.

Silver said in a tweet, “Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now. We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years. My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it.”

[CFW]

So Disney is firing Nate Silver but keeping 538.

[redgolum]

Every one is cutting their tall poppies. Plan accordingly.

[OrangeHoof]

Mr. “Hillary a 98% chance to beat Trump” is finally paying for his mistake.

[webheart]

I don’t think that number is worth all that much. Anyone could make a site like fivethirtyseven or fivetwentyeight or fivethirtynine for next to nothing.

[bigbob]

Silver is a dildohead.

[CFW]

“I don’t think that number is worth all that much. Anyone could make a site like fivethirtyseven or fivetwentyeight or fivethirtynine for next to nothing.”

That is true. LOL! Except then it wouldn’t represent the numbers of electors in the United States Electoral College and instead would just be a random number.

[jmaroneps37]

Oh NO Not Little Natie!!!
Maybe he has finally squeezed all the life out of his lucky guess in 2008.

[rb22982]

He had Trump around 18% chance actually. You are thinking of Nate Cohn from the NYT that had Trump below 5%, along with HuffPost and several others