Who is Palmer Luckey, and why is he funding pro-Trump trolls?
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VSJJ)
Under the name NimbleRichMan, Oculus founder secretly funded Reddit users dedicated to electing Trump by flooding threads with negative Clinton memes
It's hard to love a 20-something multi-millionaire, but Palmer Luckey's 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, 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 have worn if he had been born a decade earlier than he was, in 1992.
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