{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump\u2019s Meme Machine", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/150808543098/", "html": "Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump\u2019s Meme Machine\n

A Silicon Valley titan is putting money \nbehind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to \u201cshitposting\u201d and \ncirculating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.

Oculus\n founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political \norganization called Nimble America, a self-described \u201csocial welfare \n501\u00a94 non-profit\u201d in support of the Republican nominee.

Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million.\n The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym \n\u201cNimbleRichMan\u201d on Reddit with a password given him to by the \norganization\u2019s founders.

Nimble America says it\u2019s dedicated to proving that \u201cshitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,\u201d\n according to the company\u2019s introductory statement, and has taken credit\n for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a\n cartoonishly large image of Clinton\u2019s face alongside the words \u201cToo Big\n to Jail.\u201d

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Flashback to those innocent times four months ago when the notion that frog memes would play a part in this election was a lighthearted jest.

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