Under the name NimbleRichMan,Oculus founder secretly funded Reddit users committed to electing Trump by flooding threads with negative Clinton memesIt’s hard to fancy a 20-something multi-millionaire, but Palmer Luckeys introduction to the mainstream consciousness helped cement his image as the good kind of tech industry titan: the adorkable garage tinkerer we can root for. There he was on the cover of Time magazine, or barefoot and leaping,his arms floppily akimbo, his face obscured by a virtual reality headset, and a wire extending down his back like the rattail hairstyle he might contain worn if he had been born a decade earlier than he was,in 1992. Related: Oculus Rift founder: 'Facebook as we know it is not the future of virtual reality' Related: Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey spends fortune backing pro-Trump 'shitposts' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com