Yahoo News Milo Yiannopoulos resigns as an editor at Breitbart amid paedophilia comments scandal
Milo Yiannopoulos the "alt-right" "provocoteur" has resigned from his role as an editor at the far-Right news organisation Breitbart.
He has been engulfed in a storm of criticism over past comments apparently condoning relationships between boys and older men.
Breitbart used to be run by White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon.
Yiannopoulos, who is British, was earlier disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference in the wake of the scandal.
The American Conservative Union founded and hosts CPAC, which is being held from Wednesday through to Saturday outside Washington.
In a tweet on Monday, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp said that "due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning paedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak."
After Yiannopoulos, his invitation sparked a backlash. The conservative Reagan Battalion blog tweeted video clips Sunday in which Yiannopoulos discussed Jews, sexual consent, statutory rape, child abuse and homosexuality.
In one clip, Yiannopoulos defends sexual relationships between men and boys as young as 13 years old. He also speaks approvingly of his own sexual relationship with a 29-year-old priest when he was 17.
"In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men - the sort of 'coming of age' relationship - those relationships in which those older men 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," he said.
Later on Monday, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced that "after careful consideration" they had pulled Yiannopoulos' book, for which pre-orders placed it high on Amazon.com's best-seller lists.
The subject of intense controversy from the start, "Dangerous" was originally scheduled to come out in March. But Yiannopoulos pushed back the release to June so he could write about the protests during his recent campus tour, including a cancelled appearance at the University of California, Berkeley.
