Facebook Inc. is denying reports that it fired one of its former executives because he donated to an anti-Hillary Clinton group.

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Palmer Luckey, a former Facebook executive and founder of Oculus, a virtual-reality platform, was fired by the social media giant six months after he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

In the report, the Journal cited leaked emails that showed even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pressured Luckey to change his political views and switch his support to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. 

Luckey, who reportedly told people at work he supported Trump, didn’t change his views and he was put on leave after his donation was revealed internally and later fired in March 2017.

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