Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey spends fortune backing pro-Trump 'shitposts'
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VQE2)
Facebook's virtual reality headset creator is secret backer of a group dedicated to Donald Trump support through 'meme magic'
Palmer Luckey, the creator of Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, is the secret backer of a pro-Donald Trump organisation aiming to turn the tide of the US election through "meme magic" and "shitposting".
The group, Nimble America, was publicly unveiled last week on r/The_Donald, the portion of social news site Reddit dedicated to supporting the Republican candidate. In its introduction to the world, now deleted, a moderator wrote "What we've been able to accomplish here has been amazing and much bigger than any of us and certainly much bigger than Reddit.
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