![]() ![]() He had a significant media influence during the lead up to the 2016 US presidential election - promoting far-right movements, sourcing story advice from white nationalists, and writing articles engineered to stoke controversy for viral attention. Yiannopoulos began writing for the far-right media outlet Breitbart in 2014, and soon became the site's tech editor. ![]() "Hiring Milo, even as an unpaid intern, shows that she's really doubling down on her strategy of headlines over everything." Yiannopoulos gained online attention as a Breitbart editor and far-right troll "Marjorie Taylor Greene is also someone who's very good at online trolling, she's perhaps the most online troll member of congress," Ari Drennen, the LGBTQ Program Director for Media Matters, told Insider. But Greene's decision to employ Yiannopoulos is a stunt that fits her strategy to attract media attention and troll her colleagues, one expert told Insider. That Greene, who frequently attacks her opponents and critics as pedophiles, would hire someone who infamously minimized pedophilia may seem like an obvious contradiction. Marjorie Taylor Greene hired him as an unpaid summer intern. But the 37-year-old British commentator re-emerged in headlines this week after announcing that far-right Rep. Milo Yiannopoulos was one of the most prominent voices in far-right media during the mid-2010s, until his comments appearing to defend sex between adults and children as young as 13-years-old led publishers and former backers to cut their ties. On May 12, he posted a photo of himself looking at her nameplate on the outside of her office door.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. On May 17, he posted a photo of himself and the congresswoman with the caption, “At the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown, discussing the rancid scourge of white supremacy over Mai Tais and lightly-fried octopus.” Yiannopoulos came under fire in 2017 for stating that sex between 13-year-olds and older men can be “life-affirming.” Win McNamee/Getty Images Last year, Yiannopoulos returned to the limelight to announce his coming out as “ex-gay” and to advocate for conversion therapy, a practice that has been condemned time and time again by LGBTQ activists.Īhead of his job announcement, Yiannopoulos has reposted many of Greene’s Twitter posts and news on his Telegram feed. ![]() “So I have an intern that was raped by a priest as a young teen, was gay, has offended everyone at some point, turned his life back to Jesus and Church, and changed his life,” Greene told The Daily Beast. Greene described Yiannopoulos as a former gay person who “turned his life back to Jesus and Church.” Troy Stolt/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP Green confirmed that Yiannopoulos is interning at her office in a statement to the Daily Beast, which first reported the news. Simon & Schuster also canceled his book deal at the time. The right-wing button-pusher largely remained out of the public eye since 2017 when he made comments allegedly advocating for pedophilia - stating that sex between 13-year-olds and older men can be “life-affirming.”įollowing the controversial remarks, Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News and was dropped as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “But my skills are a bit rusty, so the best role I could land was an unpaid internship with a friend. “I’ve finally been persuaded out of retirement,” the former Breitbart editor wrote. Yiannopoulos, 37, said he landed a new gig as an unpaid intern for Greene in a Telegram post alongside a photo of a congressional ID badge. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tapped none other than the far-right provocateur and British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos as an intern. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik introduce resolutions to expunge Trump’s impeachments Lauren Boebert confirms she’s a grandmother at 36, doesn’t want ‘spats’ with MTG Lauren Boebert over not consulting GOP on Biden impeachment articles MTG stands by ‘little bitch’ comment against Rep. MTG accuses Dem of voting to fund ‘white Nazi army of Ukraine’ after Squad member’s reparations tweet ![]()
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