Facebook is reportedly in talks with Major League Baseball (MLB) to license live games from the upcoming season for its recently announced video app. A successful deal would provide a high-profile boost for the offering, which will see the social platform make the move to Samsung Smart TVs, and set-top boxes such as Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV.
Facebook and MLB are in the advanced stages of talks that could result in the social network landing the rights to broadcast one live game per week, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.
The move mirrors rival Twitter’s live video strategy through its emphasis on sports broadcasts. Sports events made up 52 percent of the 600 hours of video content streamed on Twitter between September and December, and included major partners like the NFL and NBA.
The big draw for sports leagues and media broadcasters is the size of Facebook’s user base, which is predicted to reach 2 billion members this year (231 million of whom are based in the United States and Canada). Seeing as the live-streams will be accessible across the range of devices Facebook is available on (desktop, mobile, and soon TV), the deal would ensure maximum exposure to that massive potential audience.
Another likely draw is advertising. Facebook currently offers comprehensive ad-targeting capabilities and has already started making ads for set-top boxes. Despite the company claiming in its recent earnings call that its video strategy would be funded through ad-sharing revenue, it also emphasized it hasn’t given up on content licensing deals. In the past, Facebook has paid out roughly $50 million to celebs and publishers to get them to create content for its Live Video feature.
Both Twitter and Facebook are also trying to appeal to global audiences with exclusive region-locked content. Twitter for example has live-streamed Six Nations Rugby in France, and Facebook broadcasted an NBA game in India. In order to compete with its bigger rival, Twitter (home to 319 million users) also allows logged-out users to tune into its live-streams.
Facebook’s most recent win came in the form of its deal with Univision to broadcast 46 Mexican Liga MX soccer games in the U.S. The first of those matches was live-streamed on the social network on Saturday. In his announcement, Facebook’s head of global sports partnerships Dan Reed revealed that the company had targeted sports content as a growth area.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?