Former Breitbart News senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos has resigned, after comments condoning pedophilia surfaced earlier this week. “Breitbart News has stood by me when others caved,” Yiannopoulos wrote in a statement tweeted by The New York Times’ Michael Grynbaum. “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.” He later confirmed the news in a press conference. The news comes after Yiannopoulos was disinvited from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and his upcoming book Dangerous was dropped by publisher Simon & Schuster.

In his statement, Yiannopoulos said that the decision to resign was his…

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