Nate Silver Leaving 538. Silver informed fivethirtyeight colleagues via slack (and then posted on twitter, shown below) that he will leave disney once his contract is up, which he added. With the end of silver’s contract and his time running out at fivethirtyeight “soon,” it is unclear what he will do next.

Fivethirtyeight founder nate silver is exiting abc news as the walt disney company ramps up layoffs, variety has confirmed. He is the author of “the signal and the noise: