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  • Facebook: Support Trump? You're Fired

    Source: Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive? Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump


    Palmer Luckey, co-founder of virtual-reality pioneer Oculus, was ousted after his political activity sparked a furor within the social-media giant and Silicon Valley


    Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group.

    His donation sparked a backlash from his colleagues. Six months later, he was out. Neither Facebook nor Mr. Luckey has ever said why he left the social-media giant. When testifying before Congress about data privacy earlier this year, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg denied the departure had anything to do with politics.

    Mr. Luckey, it turns out, was put on leave, then fired, according to people familiar with the matter. More recently, he has told people the reason was his support for Donald Trump and the furor that his political beliefs sparked within Facebook and Silicon Valley, some of those people say.

    Internal Facebook emails suggest the matter was discussed at the highest levels of the company. In the fall of 2016, as unhappiness over the donation simmered, Facebook executives including Mr. Zuckerberg pressured Mr. Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, despite Mr. Luckey’s yearslong support of Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the conversations and internal emails viewed by The Wall Street Journal.


    Mr. Luckey’s ouster from Facebook was a harbinger of battles that have broken out over the past year over the overwhelmingly liberal culture of Silicon Valley, which has given the tech industry public-relations headaches and brought unwanted attention from Washington.

    Executives from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., have had to answer questions from lawmakers about potential bias in their treatment of conservative viewpoints. Tech executives concede that Silicon Valley is predominantly liberal—Mr. Zuckerberg said in Senate testimony that it is “an extremely left-leaning place”—yet they have steadfastly maintained that politics doesn't play a role in how they police content on their sites.

    Mr. Luckey, who is 26 years old, hired an employment lawyer who argued to Facebook that it had violated California law, according to people familiar with the conversations, in pressuring the executive to voice support for Mr. Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity.

    Then Mr. Luckey and his lawyer negotiated a payout of at least $100 million, representing an acceleration of stock awards and bonuses he would have received through July 2019, plus cash, according to the people familiar with the matter. The stock awards and bonuses were a result of selling his virtual-reality company, Oculus VR, to Facebook in 2014 for more than $2 billion, a deal that netted him a total of about $600 million.

    A Facebook spokeswoman said in an email: “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.”

    Some people at Facebook say it is too simplistic to say Mr. Luckey was fired over his politics, and that his lack of candor during the episode involving the donation and his diminished role in Oculus operations were larger factors.

    Mr. Luckey, in an emailed statement, described the episode as being in the past. “I believe the team that remains at Oculus is still the best in the VR industry, and I am rooting for them to succeed.”

    Mr. Luckey started Oculus in 2012, while still a teenager, with a $2.4 million crowdfunding campaign. He dropped out of the journalism program at California State University, Long Beach, to work on the company, along with co-founder Brendan Iribe. When they sold to Facebook, Mr. Luckey became the face of the virtual-reality industry, appearing on a Time magazine cover saying the technology was “about to change the world.”

    Mr. Luckey, a Long Beach native who was home-schooled by his mother, has sometimes been out of step with the largely liberal culture of Facebook. A fan of big cars and military gear, he drove a giant tan Humvee with machine-gun mounts and orange toy guns. He once was forced to move it from the Facebook parking lot after someone called the police in to investigate, according to people familiar with the episode.

    Mr. Luckey has been a longtime supporter of Mr. Trump and wrote a letter to the then-reality-television star in 2011 urging him to run for president. Mr. Luckey has told friends that reading Mr. Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” at age 13 sparked his entrepreneurial imagination.

    Mr. Luckey’s fallout with Facebook began in September 2016, when the Daily Beast revealed his $10,000 donation to NimbleAmerica, a pro-Trump group that paid for advertising mocking Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. At least one billboard paid for by the group featured a picture of Mrs. Clinton and the phrase “Too Big to Jail.”

    In one post on a Reddit chain dedicated to supporting Mr. Trump, the author, called “NimbleRichMan,” said he was donating to the group so it could spread unflattering memes about Mrs. Clinton. In the same post, the author professed to support Mr. Trump’s campaign, saying “Hillary Clinton is corrupt, a warmonger, a freedom-stripper. Not the good kind you see dancing in bikinis on Independence day, the bad kind that strips freedom from citizens and grants it to donors.” The Daily Beast wrote that Mr. Luckey had said he used the pseudonym NimbleRichMan.

    Mr. Luckey’s donation and the perception that he might be associated with a group that at times traded in misogynistic and white-supremacist messages, as some news stories reported, ignited a firestorm. Facebook employees expressed anger about Mr. Luckey on internal message boards and at a weekly town hall meeting in late September 2016, questioning why he was still employed, according to people familiar with the complaints.

    “Multiple women have literally teared up in front of me in the last few days,” an engineering director, Srinivas Narayanan, wrote in one internal post following the meeting. Mr. Narayanan didn’t respond to requests for comment.



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  • #2
    I tend to think Trump supporters should probably be put in a padded cell for their own safety. They are clearly mentally deranged.

    Although obviously it's implausible to put that many millions of people in asylums. Perhaps anti-psychotic drugs could be added to the water supply in some areas to reduce the crazy?
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
      I tend to think Trump supporters should probably be put in a padded cell for their own safety. They are clearly mentally deranged.
      You still have access to a computer from your own padded cell?
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        How does anybody know who donated to anybody's campaign? Do people in the States go around telling everybody who they support and give money to and vote for?

        Why is it anybody's business who he or anybody else gave money too?


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        • #5
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          I tend to think Trump supporters should probably be put in a padded cell for their own safety. They are clearly mentally deranged.

          Although obviously it's implausible to put that many millions of people in asylums. Perhaps anti-psychotic drugs could be added to the water supply in some areas to reduce the crazy?


          Mr. ‘post abortion should be legal’ and ‘ 6 year olds should be able to vote’ accuses others of being deranged. That’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black if I ever saw it.
          "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
          GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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          • #6
            Originally posted by mossrose View Post
            How does anybody know who donated to anybody's campaign? Do people in the States go around telling everybody who they support and give money to and vote for?

            Why is it anybody's business who he or anybody else gave money too?
            Apparently it’s so liberals know who they can punish for giving to causes they disagree with.
            "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
            GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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            • #7
              Originally posted by mossrose View Post
              How does anybody know who donated to anybody's campaign? Do people in the States go around telling everybody who they support and give money to and vote for?

              Why is it anybody's business who he or anybody else gave money too?
              I believe every donation is publicly reported, at least up to a certain number. I think it would be not so good if politicians received money anonymously. Otherwise billionaire oil tycoons and foreign dignitaries could create their own politician. This is already an issue with Trump and Putin, could you imagine if political campaigns didn't even have to try and hide how much and from where they received the millions they use to saturate the media with their propaganda?

              Maybe donations you make to your church and other non-profit could be anonymous, but politicians must be held accountable to how they receive their money and how they spend it.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by nico View Post
                I believe every donation is publicly reported, at least up to a certain number. I think it would be not so good if politicians received money anonymously. Otherwise billionaire oil tycoons and foreign dignitaries could create their own politician. This is already an issue with Trump and Putin, could you imagine if political campaigns didn't even have to try and hide how much and from where they received the millions they use to saturate the media with their propaganda?

                Maybe donations you make to your church and other non-profit could be anonymous, but politicians must be held accountable to how they receive their money and how they spend it.
                Thanks. That makes senses.


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                • #9
                  Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
                  Apparently it’s so liberals know who they can punish for giving to causes they disagree with.
                  To be fair, I believe Republicans demanded transparency with Obama's donors during his campaigns. When the interest to know or to obtain something turns around, we're all pretty quick to drop standards to pursue it.

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                  • #10
                    sounds like this guy has a good case to sue Facebook.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by nico View Post
                      To be fair, I believe Republicans demanded transparency with Obama's donors during his campaigns. When the interest to know or to obtain something turns around, we're all pretty quick to drop standards to pursue it.
                      I have no issue with it as so long it’s used properly. Like to keep foreign infulence out, to keep rich businesses from greasing wheels to buy a few congressmen, or to keep criminal elements out. I do have an issue with using such list to punish people for giving to causes you don’t like. Assuming this story is accurate, that appears to be what happened here.
                      "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                      GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                        I tend to think Trump supporters should probably be put in a padded cell for their own safety. They are clearly mentally deranged.

                        Although obviously it's implausible to put that many millions of people in asylums. Perhaps anti-psychotic drugs could be added to the water supply in some areas to reduce the crazy?
                        aaah NPC Starlight's leftist programmers didn't program him with a reply to the facts shown in Rogue's post so it went ot the NPC's defualt trump supporters are crazy reply.

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                        • #13
                          Maybe they're working on this...

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                          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by nico View Post
                            I believe every donation is publicly reported, at least up to a certain number. I think it would be not so good if politicians received money anonymously. Otherwise billionaire oil tycoons and foreign dignitaries could create their own politician. This is already an issue with Trump and Putin, could you imagine if political campaigns didn't even have to try and hide how much and from where they received the millions they use to saturate the media with their propaganda?

                            Maybe donations you make to your church and other non-profit could be anonymous, but politicians must be held accountable to how they receive their money and how they spend it.
                            One addendum: The requirement of public disclosure only applies for donations exceeding $200. If you donate $200 or less to a candidate or a political group in a year, then there's no requirement for them to list you on their public expense filings.
                            Last edited by Terraceth; 11-12-2018, 12:30 PM.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              I tend to think Trump supporters should probably be put in a padded cell for their own safety. They are clearly mentally deranged.

                              Although obviously it's implausible to put that many millions of people in asylums. Perhaps anti-psychotic drugs could be added to the water supply in some areas to reduce the crazy?
                              after this post, do you ever expect people to take you seriously?

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