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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey says he “got fired” from Facebook “for no reason at all.”

employee, admitted on CNBC Wednesday that he was fired from the social networking giant a few years ago, saying it was for "no reason at all."

Luckey, who sold his Oculus virtual-reality headset company to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, left there in March 2017 amid controversy surrounding his political contributions and financial support of far-right groups and internet trolls. Since then, he's founded Anduril Industries, a defense technology startup that's focusing on national security and artificial intelligence.

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