{"rewrite":{"id":"r_49e475035872c2897dc3e459","clusterId":"c_6daf5c1c22689a47112ddef8","slug":"fivethirtyeightindex-lets-users-search-thousands-of-deleted-fivethirtyeight-articles","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Fivethirtyeightindex Lets Users Search Thousands of Deleted Fivethirtyeight Articles","summary":"A new site called fivethirtyeightindex allows searching 38,593 past FiveThirtyEight articles and images that were deleted by Disney. The articles, covering polls, politics, economics, and sports from roughly 2013 to 2023, were taken offline after ABC News laid off staff in 2025. The archive draws on the Internet Archive's preserved copies.","whyItMatters":"The tool restores public access to a decade of data journalism that the site's corporate owner removed without explanation, representing roughly 200,000 hours of reported labor.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eFiveThirtyEight was founded in 2008 by Nate Silver as a poll aggregation and analysis site. Disney acquired it via ESPN in 2013, then moved it to ABC News in 2018. After Silver left in 2023, ABC News laid off the FiveThirtyEight staff in 2025 as part of Disney\u0026#39;s broader workforce cuts. By May 2026, Silver discovered that older articles had been deleted and links redirected to the ABC News homepage. Former colleague Nathaniel Rakich called the deletion an unnecessary erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge. ABC News has not commented.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilver estimated that FiveThirtyEight published about 20 articles per week, each requiring roughly 20 hours of work, meaning the deleted archive represents about 200,000 hours of labor. The Internet Archive preserved the content, and the new fivethirtyeightindex site organizes those preserved copies into a searchable database of 38,593 articles and images.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Fivethirtyeightindex surfaces 38,593 deleted FiveThirtyEight articles from 2013 to 2023, all removed after ABC News layoffs in 2025. The archive outsources preservation to the Internet Archive, not Disney.","twitterPost":"Fivethirtyeightindex preserves 38,593 articles Disney deleted. The archive relies on the Internet Archive, not Disney.","threadsPost":"Fivethirtyeightindex indexes 38,593 FiveThirtyEight articles and images that Disney removed after ABC News layoffs in 2025. The site pulls from the Internet Archive, meaning Disney's deletion was only as final as the last crawler run.","newsletterBlurb":"A new search tool called fivethirtyeightindex provides access to 38,593 FiveThirtyEight articles and images that were deleted by Disney after ABC News laid off the site's staff. The archive draws on Internet Archive copies and covers roughly a decade of polling, politics, economics, and sports journalism.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260704-fivethirtyeightindex-archive/\",\"title\":\"fivethirtyeightindex lets you search about 40,000 past articles from FiveThirtyEight, a political, economic, and sports information site deleted by Disney\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4216,"outputTokens":618,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1783177474,"createdAt":"2026-07-04T14:53:59.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-07-04T14:58:32.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-04T14:53:59.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_6daf5c1c22689a47112ddef8","canonicalTitle":"ディズニーが削除した政治・経済・スポーツ等の情報サイト「FiveThirtyEight」の約4万件の過去記事を探せる「fivethirtyeightindex」","representativeArticleId":"a_7a1188557d3111164e742781","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"FiveThirtyEight\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-07-04T14:18:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-07-04T14:18:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-04T14:58:32.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260704-fivethirtyeightindex-archive/","title":"ディズニーが削除した政治・経済・スポーツ等の情報サイト「FiveThirtyEight」の約4万件の過去記事を探せる「fivethirtyeightindex」"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["FiveThirtyEight"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}