Still think DraftKings and FanDuel aren’t up to malfeasant chicanery? We’ve already ripped apart how obnoxious and annoying Daily Fantasy Sports advertising is. I’m not the only person who thinks that their ads are ruining sports. #taeks
And simply, if you re-tweet a DraftKings or FanDuel ad, you are indeed a worse human being than Ayman Al-Zawahiri. #hottaeks. Paraphrasing George W. Bush in 2001, “you are either with us, or you are with the Daily Fantasy Sports advertisements.”
And now….
Nevada regulators ruled on Thursday that playing daily fantasy sports should be considered gambling, not a game of skill, and ordered websites like DraftKings and FanDuel to stop operating immediately in the state until the companies and their employees receive state gambling licenses. (New York Times)
“The New York Times keeps hammering away at the daily fantasy scandal, this time by casting some serious doubt on FanDuel’s and DraftKings’ assertions that their employees didn’t enjoy any insider benefits while playing daily fantasy games on rival sites.”
If you want to know more about this scandal, but happen to be a better auditory learner than visual, I suggest you listen to Allie Fontana from The Fantasy Fix, as she sounds off on daily fantasy while appearing on Maximus and the Bartender. You can hear her insight on this scandal at this link.
And the media piling on continues, this time via video. The FBI starts an investigation into the daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel for insider trading and algorithm-based betting. Here’s the Daily Show segment, that eviscerates Daily Fantasy Sports
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