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?”
