{"id":5884,"date":"2017-04-03T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:22:33","slug":"palmer-luckey-was-probably-asked-to-leave-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/palmer-luckey-was-probably-asked-to-leave-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmer Luckey was probably asked to leave Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook’s statement on Luckey’s departure:<\/p>\n

\u201cPalmer will be dearly missed. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern VR revolution and build an industry. We’re thankful for everything he did for Oculus and VR, and we wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the debacle that is the Zenimax lawsuit<\/a>, no real job title at Facebook and the controversy surrounding the funding of\u00a0Clinton<\/a>\u00a0trolls\u00a0during the recent US elections\u00a0he was on borrowed time.<\/p>\n

Dude has US$2b in the bank though<\/a>. That’s a\u00a0decent amount of FU cash.<\/p>\n

Source: Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook – Recode<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook’s statement on Luckey’s departure: \u201cPalmer will be dearly missed. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}