Billionaire investor and Trump donor Robert Mercer is stepping down as head of his company, Renaissance Technologies, after a BuzzFeed exposé revealed the connections between the Mercer-funded news outlet Breitbart Media and white nationalists and neo-Nazis. The BuzzFeed report revealed how Breitbart’s former tech editor, Milo Yiannopoulos, had collaborated closely with white nationalists to generate story ideas, and even to edit the website’s articles. In his letter, Mercer tried to distance himself from Yiannopoulos, as well as from Steve Bannon, Breitbart’s longtime head who also served as Trump’s former chief strategist.
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