Facebook FIRED HIGH-RANKING EXECUTIVE ‘over his support for Donald Trump’

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Political persecution. It’s a slippery slope. Stalinist Russia. Communist China. It’s only a matter of time. How the left whines about “McCarthyism” and hoists that fictional flag any time someone challenges them. That was nothing next to the war the left has declared on our most cherished freedoms. And McCarthy was right. Look how the left is systematically destroying Americanism and shredding our most cherished institutions.

High-ranking Facebook executive was ‘forced to resign over his support for Donald Trump’ after gifting $10,000 to anti-Clinton campaign during the 2016 Presidential election

  • Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey was allegedly fired for supporting Trump
  • It had emerged Luckey paid $10,000 to an anti-Clinton group in the election
  • After the revelation bosses including Mark Zuckerberg put pressure on him
  • Eventually Luckey was put on leave and was said to have been fired in the end
  • It comes as Donald Trump accused the tech giant of anti-conservative bias

Mail Online, November 12, 2018:

A high-ranking Facebook executive was allegedly forced to resign after refusing to back down on his support for Donald Trump – it has been revealed.

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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was said to have come under intense pressure from Facebook’s leading figures after it emerged he had donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group during the 2016 Presidential election.

According to correspondence revealed by the Wall Street Journal, the revelation about his donation sparked a furore which saw him fired six months later.

Facebook higher-ups including founder Mark Zuckerberg himself were said to have attempted to pressgang Luckey into publicly supporting libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson.

Palmer Luckey was reportedly fired by Facebook in March 2017 after it emerged he had donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group

Luckey founded Oculus VR in 2012 while still a teenager and sold it to Facebook two years later for more than $2billion, staying on as the company’s head

Sources said after he refused to support Johnson to draw attention away from his donation, Luckey was put on indefinite leave, and eventually fired.

Zuckerberg, however, claimed Luckey’s departure had nothing to do with politics while testifying before Congress about data privacy earlier this year.

Shortly after his dismissal Luckey, 26, allegedly hired an employment lawyer who argued Facebook had violated California law in pressuring the executive to voice support for Mr. Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity.

Luckey and his lawyer were then able to negotiate a payout of at least $100 million, in stock awards and bonuses he would have received until July 2019.

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.’

Luckey began working for Facebook after his company Oculus VR was bought by the tech giant in 2014.

Only two years earlier Luckey had started Oculus while still a teenager, with a $2.4 million crowdfunding campaign.

The startup’s eventual sale to Facebook in 2014 for more than $2 billion, was rumored to have netted the exec a cool $600 million and allowed him to stay on as head of the company.

The embattled tech genius is a longstanding supporter of President Trump having written to him in 2011 urging him to run for the White House.

Luckey has also previously stated he was inspired to become an entrepreneur at age 13 after being inspired by Trump’s book ‘The Art of the Deal’.

 

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Warmac9999
Warmac9999
5 years ago

I made the mistake of signing up for Facebook when it was relatively new and focused on a reasonable unbiased business model. Today, it is a monstrosity of global,socialist ideas. It is worthless and needs to be broken into pieces where it can do less damage to America.

Defeat_Liberalism
Defeat_Liberalism
5 years ago
Reply to  Warmac9999

Absolutely!

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
Reply to  Warmac9999

….as I found out too !!!

Defeat_Liberalism
Defeat_Liberalism
5 years ago

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Defeat_Liberalism
Defeat_Liberalism
5 years ago

Zuckerberg, however, claimed Luckey’s departure had nothing to do with
politics while testifying before Congress about data privacy earlier
this year.

What a crock!

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Agree. After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and
jihadis suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !

Glen Benjamin
Glen Benjamin
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

You forgot to add CNN and just watched Katy Tur on MSNBC bash trump about not going to cemetery and comments made by Mississippian running forbSenate. Yet ignored Sinema Arizonan running for senate who called her state and people the crack addicts of America. Ignored NJ Melendez having sex with 14 year olds and Obama too busy to attend while President bloodiest battle of Americans live lost 150th anniversary if Gettysburg.

These media outlets deflect any Democratic blame and tear down republicans. Making them all the Pravda of Democratic Party. They need to be reigned in.

Shuali
Shuali
5 years ago
Reply to  Glen Benjamin

Controlling the media is a lost cause and would cost too much. Better to allow them to expose themselves for what they really are and hope that there are enough people with sense and insight to render them useless. The MSM will, of course, always have a following that can’t be altered. It seems that our USA is irrevocably split and will not be able to unite again. This is the core of a civil war and it is going on as we speak.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago

I don’t know that you can say Zuckerberg’s claim was a “crock”. According to the article,

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.

This strikes me as another example of Pamela showing only what she wants you to see, to lead you to her desired conclusion. Lack of candor is often a cause for termination of employment. Nevertheless, his politics do seem to have been a factor, if only by setting the stage.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Come on. FB is known to have shut down many conservative sites, links, etc. and you think his politics was not the main reason he was fired? All Zuckerberg needed to know was that Luckey donated to an anti-Clinton group. Period. If you think “lack of candor” was the reason, you really don’t know how things work. Especially at that level. Wake up

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

First, she is FAR too poorly educated to understand your comment. Moreover, if she actually had completed primary school and actually read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and understood that the UN IS “technically” US soil … She’s FAR too evil to grasp truth. Leave that foul, vile, evil, and poorly educated little thing along. Simply let her continue to HUMILIATE herself.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Yes, that’s probably best.

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
5 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

FB had been shutting down conservative posts and links as early as 2011. That was one of the reasons I left FB back then.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago

Well lying is for these types as normal as breathing is to us.

Always On Watch
Always On Watch
5 years ago

I have to wonder how many have been fired for supporting Trump. Plenty, IMO.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

The ultimate progressive DEMOCRAT, Adolph Hitler!
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Ari
Ari
5 years ago

Liberal Internet companies do not tolerate people with opposing views.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg looks like he came from Easter Island.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
5 years ago

I never had any need to use facebook but I do not understand why so many people are deep into it. I have read that many of conservatives view points are blocked but not the left and the security aspects of it it is in questioned. Many I know, have pulled the plug on facebook for those very reasons. There can also be security problems here as well but I am not one of those whiz guys that know about such matters but just a thought.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
5 years ago

zuck is starting to look like felix derzhinsky. when does facebook start building a gulag system?

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Proof this party is run by spoilt brats and fatherless MORONS. No experience in the real world. Would trust Charles Manson with their mother.

They also rule France, Germany, Canada, Britain, Mexico, etc. The fatherless MORON and women. A CURSE sent by Yahuah for your sins.

Merry Christmess.

chris VN
chris VN
5 years ago

Include NZ, ther new progressive PM had a child out of wedlock , AFTER she became PM!

volksnut
volksnut
5 years ago

Yes Mc Carthy was right – look at marxs numbered points to achieve in overthrowing our country and almost all of them have been achieved.The communists/socialists have openly stated they don’t need a revolution to take over this country they have the – democratic party .

Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
5 years ago

Proof that fakebook is partisan, and proof to me that anyone still on fakebook is anti-American.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

In the top photo above, does Zuckerberg look demonic, or what? And wtf is he drinking? Is that some sort of secret ritualistic cocktail, he thinks will give him special powers.

Raymond Hietapakka
Raymond Hietapakka
5 years ago

Facebook is really targeting “conservative” voices, like me, today …..comment image any way they can at the slightest excuse…another 30 day BAN….

Dorrie Gillingham
Dorrie Gillingham
5 years ago

Try Gab, NO censoring

Kathy Brown, Esq.
Kathy Brown, Esq.
5 years ago

But Ray: In all fairness, you DID “violate [their] community standards”. Their “community” is a pack of tyrants who live to suppress the 1st.

So consider it an honor. I feel you tho’: I’ve been quarantined many times. I finally deleted my account, then had to re-up because part of their tyranny is that you can’t view anything on FB unless you yourself are on it. I have to do that. However I don’t post anything there.

An uneasy compromise, to be sure.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago

Zuckerberg is up there with Soros and the Clintons. Really really bad news.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Zuckerberg and his comrades of the Progressive Fascist movement betray their loathing of one’s Democratic Rights; no surprise when a person is fired for one’s politics by this Fascist worm, Zuckerberg. He and his venture Facebook are a mere propaganda tool. Anyone not politically comatose realizes Zuckerberg is not a diva but an unabashed despot.

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