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Desperate for some good press, Facebook announced Thursday it had designated Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other right-wing extremists as "dangerous" and would jettison them from Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by the social media giant. Playing catch-up with other platforms, Facebook added to its banned…

UPDATED: Despite being canceled, Milo Yiannaopoulos still made an appearance at UC Berkeley to speak. According to the Associated Press, the outspoken right-wing activist addressed a few dozen supporters on campus while a larger crowd protested his appearance. Dressed in a denim jacket and an American flag hoodie, he…

Bill Maher, who this week took a victory lap after the unraveling of conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, is is under fire for a 1998 episode of his former ABC late-night show, in which he defends a thirtysomething teacher in jail for having had sex with a 12-year-old student with whom she got pregnant. “As I…

Bill Maher is taking credit for the swift downfall of Milo Yiannopoulos. In a New York Times interview posted online this morning, Maher suggests that Yiannopoulos’ appearance on last Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher was the “disinfectant” needed to expose the now-ex Breitbart News provocateur. Maher’s decision to…

UPDATE with news conference remarks: "I am a gay man and a child abuse victim," professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said in a news conference today held shortly after announcing he was stepping down as senior editor at Breitbart. "Between the ages 13 and 16 two men touched me in ways they should not have; one…

In advance of an expected news conference by Breitbart’s under-the-gun senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, the web site’s editor-in-chief took to its radio show this morning to blast his staffer’s remarks in old videos that re-surfaced this week. The radio remarks further fueled speculation Yiannopoulos will be removed…

Add Simon & Schuster to the list of organzations who today are shocked – shocked! –  to discover professional provocateur/Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has made incendiary, outrageous, remarks. “They canceled my book,” Yiannopoulo said simply, in a social media statement about the book, on which the…

Two days after being invited to deliver keynote address at Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., controversial Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been un-invited after the org seems to have discovered he is an unapologetic provocateur. The invitation retraction comes same day the…

UPDATE with Overtime video: What tonight’s Real Time With Bill Maher lacked in vitriol, the show’s YouTube Overtime segment more than made up for. Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos falsely claimed that transgender people suffer “a psychiatric disorder” and shouldn’t be “around little girls,” eventually prompting…

Former Republican congressman Jack Kingston certainly isn’t taking Jeremy Scahill’s lead, saying he’s looking forward to being on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight with the controversial Milo Yiannopoulos. But Kingston, one of CNN’s go-to supporters of President Donald Trump, might be in for a disappointment — he…

Insisting that his own comments on Islam “have never veered into vitriol,” Bill Maher has responded to his protesting (and now former) Real Time guest Jeremy Scahill with a pointed critique of both Scahill and liberalism. “Liberals will continue to lose elections,” Maher says, “as long as they follow the example of…

UPDATED, 3:55 PM: Journalist Jeremy Scahill, a frequent guest of Real Time with Bill Maher, has canceled his appearance set for this Friday in protest of the show’s booking of Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart News editor who Scahill says will use the HBO platform to “legitimize his hateful agenda.” Real T…