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  • 2021-04-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Marco Rubio Send a 'Scathing Letter' to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred? (en)
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  • In April 2021, Snopes readers asked us to examine the authenticity and accuracy of reports that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, had sent a scathing letter to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred, over the organization's recent decision to move the 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to the passage of S.B. 202, a controversial electoral reform law. On April 5, The Week published an article with the headline Marco Rubio sends scathing letter to MLB commissioner after league pulls All-Star Game from Atlanta, reporting: Yahoo! republished that piece later on the same day. The letter it referred to was authentic and could quite reasonably be described as scathing. In an April 2 news release, Manfred announced that: On April 5, Rubio published his response to Manfred on his own website, writing: MLB does indeed have a broadcasting partnership with Tencent, a massive Chinese telecommunications and social media company. The international nonprofit Human Rights Watch has asserted that Tencent has played a significant role in facilitating and entrenching the Chinese government’s censorship, surveillance, and propaganda regime inside China, adding, There is emerging evidence that they also have a debilitating influence on rights outside the country. In 2018, MLB signed an agreement with the Cuban Baseball Federation to allow Cuban players to be scouted and drafted by American teams without having to defect in order to do so. However, the administration of then-U.S. President Donald Trump canceled the agreement in 2019. At the 2020 Masters, a tournament that was not open to the general public, Manfred was photographed in attendance at Augusta National, wearing a clearly visible Member badge: (en)
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