FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver: Vox Just Rewrites Wikipedia Pages

In an interview with the podcast Employee of the Month, FiveThirtyEight founder and editor-in-chief Nate Silver went after rival site Vox, saying they simply rewrite Wikipedia pages.

The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple first drew attention to Silver’s remarks, in which he said that FiveThirtyEight was “quite opposite from Vox, where, what I was kind of saying earlier, well, the idea of you read the Wikipedia page and you write, like, a take on it. That’s not our view exactly. I mean, we think that people should show their work.”

“Wait, I’m sorry, I just want to clarify: So you feel like Vox, they just like take the Wikipedia page and rewrite it?” asked host Catie Lazarus

https://soundcloud.com/employeeofthemonthshow/natesilvereotm

“Vox publishes a lot of things every day,” Silver said in response. “You know, we publish five or six articles every day. They publish 40 or 50. I think the best five or ten things they do are terrific, right? They have some great people working for them. I think they also have a lot of less than terrific things…”

Silver has taken shots at Vox before. In April, he attacked them for stealing his website’s content without attribution, something that editor-in-chief Ezra Klein eventually apologized for.

Listen above, via Employee of the Month.

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