Thread by @PalmerLuckey

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The Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post correction scandal isn't the isolated incident apologists claim. When I was fired, her story said I had announced I was leaving Oculus. This was false - it wasn't my choice nor my announcement. Her only source: Facebook PR. WaPo later

published a story claiming I hid political contributions using shell companies and refused to comment. This was also false - it was a single donation from a regular company, and they didn't reach out to me until 5:54 AM, seven minutes before print. When

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/854820485808373760

I publicly called them out for this, they said the note regarding comment was technically true, and that they would only edit the story if I provided WaPo with detailed financials proving my helicopter business isn't a shell corp. Then they deleted everything with no disclosure.

At some point, someone must've realized that they shouldn't have just made things up without any evidence. These hoity-toity papers love to crow about truth and justice when they correct tiny things like misspellings, but major wrongdoing is regularly papered over without fuss.

People accusing me of hating journalists or not understanding how their job works: I studied journalism in college for three years before I dropped out to start Oculus. I was the Online Editor of the Daily49er, our school paper. I don't hate journalism, I hate bad journalism.

Taylor responded, asking what story I am talking about and claiming to have never covered Oculus. I would have thought giving a specific date, topic, and excerpt was enough, apparently not.

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1533637925245579265?t=MK_dP4lvJxtsPP7WX4TDzw&s=19

Taylor has blocked me.