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This person = Palmer Luckey = Oculus VR founder

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And he literally didn't like and hacked his own product as a consumer?

He left the company last year.

Or rather was kicked out for links with the Alt-Right.

By which we mean he made a single $10,000 donation to an organization that at the time of his donation had put up one single anti-Hillary billboard.

Wasn't it more than that?

@wronghorse, If I'm reading that FEC page you linked to correctly, the only donations listed before his firing were to Ted Cruz and Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right.

Palmer's big donating spree happened after his firing, and those later donations still didn't go to alt-right causes/candidates, just Republican ones.

[edit: The post I was side replying to has been deleted. Sorry if this post now makes less sense.]

I thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?

"Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right"

Uhhh what now?

I think context is important for understanding the response. From what I recall at the time, the article that first broke this news and defined the narrative was this article from the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea...

Describing it as a $10K donation for a single anti-Hillary billboard misses the parts of the story that caused controversy at the time. The controversial aspects included his connection to Milo Yiannopoulos and moderators of r/The_Donald, and their connections to abusive online behavior and white supremacist rhetoric.

Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?

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