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
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.
I recently spent two weeks in federal court successfully defending myself from someone who tried to turn my willingness to help out a fellow (pre-Oculus) VR forum member into a billion-dollar payday. You don't know this because nobody is reporting on the unanimous jury verdict.
For 99.99% of even hardcore VR industry followers, this never happened. Hundreds of stories were written when the lawsuit was filed, dozens more covered minutia of the case as it progressed. The verdict got a single paywalled legal newswire entry.
Not even the tech reporters who were literally sitting in the courtroom as the verdict was read wrote anything. One can only conclude that the media apparatus around this case was only interested in reporting an outcome where Palmer/Facebook/Oculus lose.