Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer and commentator who helped make Breitbart News a leading organ of the "alt-right," resigned from the news organization Tuesday after a video of him endorsing pedophilia surfaced online over the weekend. In a news conference Tuesday, Yiannopoulos said his resignation was effective immediately and praised the website as "a significant factor in my success." "I said some things on those Internet live streams that were simply wrong," he said Tuesday. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty." Yiannopoulos issued a statement on his resignation Tuesday, thanking the company for allowing him to “carry conservative and libertarian ideas to communities that would otherwise never have heard them.”

The announcement comes after Simon & Schuster canceled his book deal after remarks he made defending relationships between boys and older men surfaced online and did not sit well with the public. The comments also cost him his invitation to speak at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference

“I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately,” Yiannopoulos said in a statement. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.”

The Conservative Political Action Conference rescinded its invitation to Yiannopoulos and Simon & Schuster canceled the publication of his book Dangerous after the recording was highlighted by various news outlets. In one of them, Yiannopoulos, who is gay, said relationships between boys and men could “help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”

On Monday, he was disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference after video of his remarks was promoted through social media. Yiannopoulos's self-named "Dangerous Faggot" speaking tour has sparked protests on college campuses for the past year, including one earlier this month at UC Berkeley that turned violent.
British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from his post as technology editor at Breitbart news, after controversy around his statements regarding underage sex.