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TRUMP-BACKING VR VISIONARY PALMER LUCKEY CLASHES WITH META EXEC OVER HIS 2017
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Palmer Luckey — the Oculus VR headset creator who was controversially fired from
Facebook in 2017 after he donated $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group — has
called on Meta “to make everything public” about the still-murky circumstances
behind his exit.

Facebook has repeatedly denied that Luckey, who sold Oculus to Meta for $2
billion in 2014 and now runs the military contractor Anduril Technologies, was
forced out of the company because he helped fund a campaign of critical memes
about Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The bizarre saga resurfaced over the weekend after Luckey sparred on X with
Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth – who claimed he had
“absolutely no idea about palmer’s politics now or then and defended him
publicly inside the company when people were agitating around them.”

Luckey immediately questioned Bosworth’s credibility, saying the Meta executive
had “retweeted posts claiming I donated to white supremacists, and a post saying
that anyone who supports Trump because they don’t like Hillary Clinton is a s—ty
human being.”




“You publicly told everyone my departure had nothing to do with politics, which
is absolutely insane and obviously contradicted by reams of internal
communications,” Luckey said. “It is like saying the sky is green…don’t try to
play the apolitical hero here.”


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“Not claiming to be apolitical, I certainly have my own politics probably
different than yours, but internally at the time I certainly was clear I thought
no employment consequences should come from someone’s political beliefs and
people asking about it at Q&A were out of line,” Bosworth replied.

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Palmer Luckey called on Meta to “make everything public” about his firing.
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The two ex-coworkers exchanged a few more barbs, with Luckey eventually stating
that he is “down to throw it all out there.”

“If the truth actually backs up what you say about me and why I was fired, let’s
make everything public and let people judge for themselves,” Luckey said. “You
are the CTO of Meta, a trillion dollar corporation. This is fully within your
power, not some peon decision. Just say the word.”

> If the truth actually backs up what you say about me and why I was fired,
> let's make everything public and let people judge for themselves. You are the
> CTO of Meta, a trillion dollar corporation. This is fully within your power,
> not some peon decision.
> 
> Just say the word. https://t.co/pkgD8HRbfw
> 
> — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) April 13, 2024

The Post has reached out to Meta for comment on the spat.

In 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Luckey had told people that he
was fired from Facebook because his support for Trump had sparked outrage within
the company.

The outlet obtained internal emails purportedly showing that Meta boss Mark
Zuckerberg and others had pressured Luckey to publicly throw his support behind
then-presidential candidate Gary Johnson, a libertarian, to tamp down the
criticism.

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Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth is pictured. REUTERS

“We can say unequivocally that Palmer’s departure was not due to his political
views. We’re grateful for Palmer’s contributions to Oculus, and we’re glad he
continues to actively support the VR industry,” a Facebook representative said
in 2018.

Luckey previously addressed the situation during an appearance at the Wall
Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in 2022, declaring he had “no love for
Facebook” and that the company “fired me.”

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“The official reason is no reason at all — they just didn’t have a place for me
anymore,” Luckey said.

“The real reason is because I gave some money to a particular presidential
[candidate] … a particular political effort that was unpopular in 2016,” he
added.




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