Milo Yiannopoulos, a media provocateur who had become an outspoken voice in conservative politics, has resigned from the hard-right news site Breitbart News after a video surfaced in which he made remarks that appeared to condone sex between grown men and underage boys.

“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 said at a press conference in New York on Tuesday.

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