TLDR
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ABC News redirected all FiveThirtyEight article URLs to abcnews.com/politics, wiping thousands of data-journalism pages from the web.
Key Takeaways
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All FiveThirtyEight article URLs now redirect to abcnews.com/politics with no archive or landing page.
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Nathaniel Rakich, a FiveThirtyEight alum, called it “a needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.”
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No official explanation from ABC News has been provided.
Hacker News Comment Review
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Commenters note ABC’s dismantling followed a pattern: projects page removed first, staff laid off post-2024 election, now full article deletion.
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The FiveThirtyEight GitHub org (github.com/fivethirtyeight) remains intact, offering datasets and code even as the editorial archive disappears.
Notable Comments
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@cmsparks: traces the stepwise shutdown and flags the GitHub org as the surviving artifact worth bookmarking.
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