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This year’s World Snooker Championship will be made available throughout the Americas and the Indian sub-continent via social media platform Facebook.

The World Surf League has agreed a deal with Facebook that will allow the social media platform to offer live coverage of the 2017 season of the competition.

The British Olympic Association (BOA) will launch a new digital platform with a live stream of the England national team’s Table Tennis European Championship qualification match against Slovenia.

Social media platform Facebook is to stream live coverage of the Revolution Series elite track cycling league.

English Women’s Super League football club Manchester City will live stream this weekend’s fixture against Doncaster Rovers Belles on social media platform Facebook.

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North American basketball league the NBA has agreed a deal with social media platform Facebook to stream live coverage of USA Basketball’s warm-up games for the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Italian Serie A football club AS Roma has said it has become the first team in Europe to live stream a full match via its official page on social media platform Facebook.

Dan Reed, head of sports partnerships at Facebook, has said that the social media platform has no plans to bid for sports-media rights, despite the growth of its Facebook Live service.

The Formula E electric car-racing championship has hailed a landmark content partnership with social media platform Facebook.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and US cross-platform media network Whistle Sports have launched a new social media channel dedicated to creating original football content.

Social media platform Facebook is to stream live coverage of the 2015 Audi Cup pre-season football club tournament.

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American football league the NFL has bolstered its online video offering by agreeing a partnership with social media platform Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.