Disney Erased FiveThirtyEight
Disney's management of FiveThirtyEight has come to an end, resulting in the deletion of the site. This decision has erased approximately 200,000 hours of work produced over a decade. The former team is now attempting to recreate some of the site's popular content independently.
- ▪FiveThirtyEight was shut down by Disney in 2025 after a decade of mismanagement.
- ▪The deletion of the site resulted in the loss of around 200,000 person-hours of work.
- ▪Former team members are working to recreate popular content from FiveThirtyEight at a new platform called Silver Bulletin.
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Disney erased FiveThirtyEightNothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.Nate SilverMay 19, 202613729ShareLast Thursday night, I was working late, trying to put some of the finishing touches on our forthcoming World Cup model — and actually looking up an article I’d written for FiveThirtyEight in 2014 about my previous soccer model, SPI. Although the quality of the archive has gradually deteriorated since Disney shut down the site in 2025 (I left two years earlier in 2023), at least our text-based articles were mostly still there, or so I thought.
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