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Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight Are on ABC’s Chopping Block<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p><em><strong>This reporting is one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of </strong></em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em><strong>Confider</strong></em></a><em><strong>, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe </strong></em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?newsletter=confider&tdb_source=confider&tdb_medium=top_article"><em><strong>here</strong></em></a><em><strong> and send your questions, tips, and complaints </strong></em><a href="mailto:confider@thedailybeast.com"><em><strong>here</strong></em></a><em><strong>.</strong></em></p> <p>Famed statistics guru Nate Silver and his website FiveThirtyEight are on the “chopping block,” Confider has learned, as ABC News looks to cut costs. </p> <p>A decision on the future of the famed politics, economics, and sports analysis website is set to be made by the summer when Silver’s contract is up, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told us. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nate-silver-and-fivethirtyeight-are-on-abcs-chopping-block?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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This reporting is one of several scoops featured in this week’s edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.

Famed statistics guru Nate Silver and his website FiveThirtyEight are on the “chopping block,” Confider has learned, as ABC News looks to cut costs.

A decision on the future of the famed politics, economics, and sports analysis website is set to be made by the summer when Silver’s contract is up, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told us.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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