USA Today loses 5.8 million Facebook likes, USA Today Sports and For The Win also hit
A recent purge of fraudulent Facebook accounts cost USA Today almost 12 million likes across its various pages.
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Twitter has heavy competition for Thursday Night Football streaming rights
Facebook is in talks to stream one MLB game per week, according to Reuters
Facebook will live stream Mexican Liga MX games
All games will be streamed in English
Sage Steele posts about diversity on Facebook, gets criticized by Robert Littal
ESPN’s Sage Steele has been in the news a lot recently, first for criticizing Mike Evans’ anthem protest...
Facebook continues push for live rights with CONCACAF Champions League deal
Major online companies are getting more and more into live-streaming sports games, as we’ve seen with Yahoo, Twitter,...
USA Basketball will simulcast NBA TV streams of pre-Olympic games on Facebook
Facebook’s importance as a place for sports streaming is continuing to grow. There have been plenty of broadcasts...
ESPN’s Kevin Ota: sports fans are too smart to be fooled by fake Facebook posts
Facebook as a publishing platform is becoming increasingly important for numerous journalistic organizations, including ESPN, but it’s also...
ESPN fires Curt Schilling after his anti-trans comments and defense of them
Curt Schilling’s most recent controversy over his repost of a Facebook meme mocking trans people and his added...
NFL may have chosen Twitter thanks to disagreement with Facebook on value, ads
The NFL’s decision this week to pick Twitter as their streaming partner for Thursday Night Football is potentially...
Facebook Live seeing uses for sports including Peyton Manning’s retirement
The Denver Broncos have been experimenting using Facebook Live. It posted videos of player interviews during Super Bowl...
How Facebook Could Innovate The Way We Watch Football
As we’ve reported to you earlier this week, Facebook is finally getting serious about live content…..and its the...
Amazon, Facebook and Verizon interested in streaming NFL games
The NFL is looking for additional revenue streams. It already has its billions of dollars set from CBS,...
Facebook wants you to gather and talk sports on Facebook
Social media has become one of the places to share thoughts on a single sports event. As people...
Dallas Cowboys announce new social media rules for reporters
When social media first exploded, it was commonplace for professional sports franchises to limit the number of times...
HBO puts “Ballers” and “The Brink” premieres on Facebook
In an effort to get people hooked on the new HBO series Ballers and The Brink, the pay...
Facebook signs a live streaming deal for March Madness
The NCAA Tournament is less than a week away and Turner Sports has been signing deals with new...
NFL and Facebook partner on media deal
If you want to watch the NFL these days, it isn’t hard. Whether you want to be traditional...
The World Cup has become a world social media event
We’ve seen the impact of social media on sporting events, but with a global event like the World...
