Daily Briefing, April 24

Being a bigot on social media is probably not a smart career move, as former major-league pitcher Curt Schilling found out.

ESPN fired him as a baseball analyst after he made comments on Facebook critical of transgender rights.

The network had suspended Schilling last year over a tweet in which he compared Muslim extremists to Nazi-era Germans.

Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley will be an “irreverent expose” about online marketing and social media.

According to a tweet from TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois, the company replaced its usual Muzak with songs by Prince.