24-year-old Palmer Luckey, whose fortune is pegged at $700m after selling Oculus to Facebook for $2bn, is quoted by The Daily Beast admitting to putting money into an unofficial Trump group dedicated to "s**tposting" and circulating anti-Hillary Clinton memes.

This is a message from @PalmerLuckey, the founder of @Oculus. pic.twitter.com/CWlAA8ugMx

— codyb (@codybrown) September 23, 2016

According to the report, Luckey financially backed an organisation called Nimble America.  The Daily Beast said Luckey confirmed he had used the pseudonym "NimbleRichMan" on Reddit with a password given to him by the Nimble America founders. The NimbleRichMan account has since been deleted, but not before a number of damaging posts were archived.

The Daily Beast also reveals links between Luckey and Breitbart tech editor and Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos. The controversial Yiannopoulos was recently suspended from Twitter after issues a number of abusive messages to Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.

Along with Luckey, Nimble America was founded by two moderators of Reddit’s r/The_Donald, which helped popularize Trump-themed white supremacist and anti-Semitic memes along with 4Chan and 8Chan. A questionnaire to become a moderator at r/The_Donald posted in March had applicants answer the questions “Is there a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy?” and “Was 9/11 an inside job?”

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-09-23-report-oculus-rift-creator-palmer-luckey-secretly-funded-pro-trump-meme-website

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html

"Damaging posts"? The only damage being done is at Hillary's own hand.

Well, I guess Trump, too.

Man I hope Gary wins...

LOL, Let me just break it to you, Gary Johnson isn't winning anything. It's Trump or Clinton. Pick your poison.

Let's all be fair and stop persecuting people for their politician of choice.

So? I don't get it, has he done something illegal, does making memes count as slander or something?

Man, turns out Palmer Luckey is an absolute dick-hole.

Supporting Trump is one thing, funding the creation of white-supremacist and anti-semitic memes?

No, it's just that "The Internet" loves Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson. They hate Trump and Clinton so anything pro Trump or pro Clinton is seen as hugely negative.

A man spent his own money on something i disagree with?

I literally cant even right now. Disgusting. Wow.

Hilary was right about them memes afterall. That cartoon frog is more sinister than you might realize.

PRAISE KEK

Add to the list of "Super" nutbag supporters,

Sarah Palin,

Charlie Sheen,

Dennis Rodman,

Mike Tyson,

Gary Busey,

Hulk Hogan,

Ted Nugent

That is really unbecoming.  I mean to me Lucky is really blessed as is so to funding a racist group is really disappointing.  Maybe he is in it for the tax breaks. Or maybe America just isn't really great to him...  And what the hell is up with the NimbleRichMan handle?