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Nate Silver blasts ex-bosses at ABC for deleting FiveThirtyEight archives: 'bunch of a--holes'

New York Post·Ariel Zilber·17 days ago
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Nate Silver slammed his former ABC News employers as “a bunch of a–holes” on Friday after the Disney-owned network took down the entire archives of his now-defunct FiveThirtyEight news site. Silver — the data geek who rose to prominence by using statistical models to accurately predict the results of the 2008 presidential election and many Senate races — referred to ABC News executives as a “bunch of a–holes” on Friday. He shared a visceral reaction to an X post from former FiveThirtyEight colleague Nathaniel Rakich, who wrote: “ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.” Nate Silver blasted ABC News after the Disney-owned network scrubbed archived FiveThirtyEight articles from the internet. Bloomberg via Getty Images The Post confirmed Rakich’s claims. “Honestly what a bunch of a–holes,” Silver wrote in response to Rakich.…

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