TechCrunch quietly retracts statements implying Oculus Founder is a racist

On December 29th 2017 (over 15 months after the original article was published), TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha quietly (but to his credit) posted an update to his article entitled The Ugly Truth about an Oculus Founder's Politics.

Update below:

Here is the link to Blake Harris' story mentioned in the update: https://uploadvr.com/fake-news-happens-reporting-palmer-luckey-nimble-america/

Shortly after the daily beast broke a story entitled Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine, more game press (including this article from the Verge in which I was quoted), demonized Luckey, painting him as some sort of alt-right troll farmer.

Luckey quietly left Oculus under unknown circumstances shortly after the firestorm of articles condemning him.

Much credit goes to Anthony Ha for posting the update, and to Blake Harris for doing real journalism. In this writers opinion though, updates like this are too little, too late. Journalists wield far too much political power and should be held accountable for misreporting. Though the blame can't remain solely on journalists. An environment which allows people to be condemned and lose a company that they themselves founded, because of private political opinions is equally as toxic.

I will continue to post updates on Oculus and Palmer Lucky as more is learned, and look forward to reading Blake Harris' forthcoming book The History of the Future: How a Bunch of Misfits, Makers, and Mavericks Cracked the Code of Virtual Reality

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