@wutronic: The official story goes that Palmer Luckey was not “let go from Meta” in the sense of a firing, he was pushed out of Oculus (then a Facebook subsidiary) in March 2017, three years after Facebook acquired his company for about $2 billion. The widely reported trigger was his political activity during the 2016 election, specifically a $10,000 donation to a pro Donald Trump advertising project called Nimble America, which sparked internal backlash, meetings with senior executives including Mark Zuckerberg, and eventually his removal from the company, though Facebook publicly denied that politics was the reason and only Luckey himself has been explicit about the connection. He negotiated a reportedly large payout exceeding $100 million after hiring an employment lawyer and went on to found Anduril Industries, while Meta’s XR leadership later issued public apologies and Zuckerberg expressed regret about how his departure ended, framing it as a regrettable but not politically motivated conclusion to his time at the company.

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