[ownlife]

How can we jump to that conclusion? Maybe they were only willing to interfere in that process in extreme cases.

[vintermann]

What would that look like? Can you see a concrete scenario where it was somehow justified by ABC Disney to interfere in 538's editorial process?

There's not much extreme about Nate Silver.

[IAmBroom]

Which means they interfered when they really wanted to, which is the point you were responding to.