It's a very somber scene in the building—people crying and upset,’ a network staffer said. ‘Lots of panicked phone calls between staffers trying to make sense of it’

ABC News has shut down FiveThirtyEight, the renowned data-driven political analysis site, as part of broader layoffs affecting 200 employees. Staff learned of their termination before the official announcement,

The polling platform has been on a downturn since founder Nate Silver left and took his trademark statistical model with him in 2023.