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a kennedy

(33,850 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:05 PM Jun 24

Guess I'm late to the 538 is now a ABC news party........

Welcome to the new home of 538! Starting today, Sept. 18, 538 content will be published at a new vertical on the ABC News website, www.abcnews.com/538, where we will be focusing on coverage of elections, politics and American society.

This means we will no longer be posting articles on our old website, www.fivethirtyeight.com. But fans of the old site shouldn’t worry — all of the articles published prior to today will remain online. Old links to specific articles will still work, although www.fivethirtyeight.com will redirect to our new home at ABC News. You can also simply search online for the article you’re interested in or, if you are looking for articles by a specific writer, browse their contributor pages.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/introducing-538-abc-news/story?id=103218541

Gonna check what 538 had to say.....curious hadn't been on their site for awhile, and here's what's there now.

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Guess I'm late to the 538 is now a ABC news party........ (Original Post) a kennedy Jun 24 OP
Huh? What's 538? What is this about? live love laugh Jun 24 #1
It was a pretty popular elections analytics website run by Nate Silver bearsfootball516 Jun 24 #2
Now completely unreliable Bobstandard Jun 24 #3
Article is almost 2 years old Fiendish Thingy Jun 24 #4
Yah, just killing some time and websites and saw that it no longer exists. a kennedy Jun 24 #5

bearsfootball516

(6,598 posts)
2. It was a pretty popular elections analytics website run by Nate Silver
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:15 PM
Jun 24

They analyzed polls and trends. It peaked around 2016-2020, it was a pretty cool site that provided a ton of data if you were a bit of an elections nerd like myself.

Bobstandard

(1,936 posts)
3. Now completely unreliable
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:22 PM
Jun 24

Because the network has caved to Trump, 538 isn’t just unreliable, it likely just another propaganda arm of Trump World.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,828 posts)
4. Article is almost 2 years old
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:49 PM
Jun 24

538 was dissolved by ABC after the election last November- it no longer exists.

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