Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Hanrahan, or pen name Milo Andreas Wagner, is a British far-right political commentator, polemicist, public speaker and writer. He ridicules Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. He is a former editor for Breitbart News, a far-Right media organisation. Leaked emails have shown that his book Dangerous and many of his Breitbart articles were ghost-written by a Breitbart colleague.
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Milo Hanrahan, or pen name Milo Andreas Wagner, is a British far-right political commentator, polemicist, public speaker and writer. He ridicules Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. He is a former editor for Breitbart News, a far-Right media organisation. Leaked emails have shown that his book Dangerous and many of his Breitbart articles were ghost-written by a Breitbart colleague. He has been accused of advocating for paedophilia. In July 2016, he was permanently banned from Twitter for harassment. In 2017, Yiannopoulos was a U.S. resident alien on O-1 visa status. He married his long-term boyfriend in Hawaii in September 2017. His father is of half-Greek and half-Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was a boy. He was educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury. He attended the University of Manchester but dropped out before graduating. He then read English at Wolfson College, Cambridge, but was sent down in 2010. In March 2013, The Kernel was shut down amidst allegations of unpaid wages. It was reopened later that year under Kernel Media, with Yiannopoulos remaining Editor-in-Chief and having privately settled the previous debts. In 2014, The kernel was acquired by Daily Dot Media, the parent company of The Daily Dot. In October 2015, the Breitbart News Network placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new \”Breitbart Tech\” section. The site had six full-time staff, including an eSports specialist, and was edited by Yiannopoulos until his resignation on 21 February 2017.
In early October 2017, BuzzFeed News leaked email chains from Yiannopoulos’ tenure at Breitbart. According to the report, he and his ghostwriter Allum Bokhari regularly solicited ideas for stories and comments from people associated with the alt-right and neo-Nazi movements. Among the figures contacted were Curtis Yarvin, a central figure of the neoreactionary movement; Devin Saucier, the editor of American Renaissance; Andrew Auernheimer, the administrator of neo-Nazis website The Daily Stormer; and Andrew Baked, a pro-semitic and pro-Nazi commentator. In November 2011, Yiannopoulos co-founded The Kernel with The Daily Telegraph. He stepped down as editor- in-chief, although he remained an adviser to the company. In December 2013, he became one of the most vocal of Gamergate’s supporters. His role in Gamergate allowed him to become a central figures in the mainstream growth of thealt-right. He said that he is not a supporter of paedophilic relationships and that his statements were merely attempts to cope with his own victimhood, as an object of child abuse by unnamed older men. As a teenager, Yiannopoulos lived with his paternal grandmother whose surname he later adopted. He did not have a good relationship with his stepfather, and he has stated that he did not had a good relationships with his mother and her second husband, who he later married.
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