FiveThirtyEight — named, of course, after the number of electors in the U.S. electoral college — has its roots in the “Community” section of the liberal news site Daily Kos, where, in 2007, a ...

FiveThirtyEight became famous for its “forecasts” from founder Nate Silver. But the website (where I worked from 2017 to 2021) was trying to do much more than predict presidential election ...

The president of ABC News appeared to be reading from a script as he notified the 15 employees at data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight that they were out of a job — even though the staffers ...

ABC News is shutting down FiveThirtyEight as part of sweeping layoffs at the network as parent company Disney continues broader restructuring and looks to cut about 200 positions, or 6 percent of ...

Election savant Nate Silver blasted FiveThirtyEight for suspending its presidential forecasts — offering up a “theory” that the website he founded is waiting for Vice President Kamala Harris ...

FiveThirtyEight’s model gives Biden a 54-in-100 chance of winning the election. (Which is to say, of winning enough states that he would win the Electoral College, not of winning the popular vote.) ...

About FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver, a statistician, writer and professional poker player, in 2008 started FiveThirtyEight, which refers to the number of electors in the electoral college.

FiveThirtyEight.com was founded in 2008 by Nate Silver and has since been rebranded by ABC News. Screenshot courtesy of FiveThirtyEight I did something this week that I never thought I would do: I ...

The crew discusses their takeaways from the first Republican presidential primary debate in this late-night edition of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. You… ...

FiveThirtyEight has finally found its replacement in The Economist’s G. Elliot Morris. ABC News has tapped Morris as the editorial director of data analytics for the news division, a position ...