There’s something unusual going on with SB Nation and CBSSports.com, with multiple SB Nation writers pointing out that CBS Sports is running pieces first published on SB Nation sites in their entirety, complete with the same photos and with no link or author credit beyond “CBS Sports Staff.”
Update: Here’s a statement CBS Sports Digital sent to Awful Announcing:
When linking out to SB Nation stories through our app, a technical issue caused the stories to be inadvertently posted in their entirety on the site instead. We immediately fixed the issue and are taking steps to ensure this does not happen again.
Wick Terrell of SB Nation Cincinnati Reds’ site Red Reporter pointed this out Tuesday:
Yo @cbssports…
These are my words. I wrote them, and not for you. It appears you’ve copy/pasted them, posted them, and not cited me once. Borked, man. https://t.co/FbClUgqkIn
— Wick Terrell (@wickterrell) December 5, 2017
Here. Right here. This is where I wrote them. https://t.co/r3VoCIhpDt
— Wick Terrell (@wickterrell) December 5, 2017
I know it’s happened to plenty of others, others who probably care more about it than I do. Still, I thought it was worth it to float that out there.
— Wick Terrell (@wickterrell) December 5, 2017
Others have noted it at other SB Nation sites:
They appear to be doing this to a lot of people. Many of the articles written on Royals Review are showing up there, as well.
— Hokius (@Hokius) December 5, 2017
I believe this happened with @TwinkieTown, too…
— Andrew Mearns (@MearnsPSA) December 5, 2017
Yep. They've been scraping every single SB Nation team site and publishing them as their own articles. The relevant peoples have been told.
— Twinkie Town (@TwinkieTown) December 5, 2017
yup, something we're discussing in the SBNation MLB slack. Supposedly it's an "error" with their automated content generator. Wonder how many kids are pulling that with their book reports right now.
— Lookout Landing (@LookoutLanding) December 5, 2017
