Luckey: The New York Times published a fabricated quote of mine
Palmer Luckey · From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378) · Oct 25, 2022 · at 55:05
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey explains why he is critical of mainstream press reporting, citing an encounter with The New York Times.
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“The New York times posted a quote for me that I literally never said. And I told them like, Hey, you said that I said this, I never said that. They said, well, it's more or less what you said. We don't think the meeting is different.”
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