You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet The influential polling analysis site was shut down last year, but an earlier archived version, fivethirtyeight.com, had lived on. Now the site is redirecting users to ABC News. Nate Silver, center, in 2015. Mr. Silver founded FiveThirtyEight as a blog in 2008 before building it into a highly influential polling analysis operation.