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

Diana Nechita

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