Two MIT Media Lab scholars quit as Jeffrey Epstein connections emerge

Get the Full StoryI cannot with integrity do that from a place with the kind of relationship that the Media Lab has had with Epstein, writes Dr. J. Nathan Matias in a statement. It s that simple.

Last week, MIT s prestigious Media Lab published news that director Joi Ito had accepted funds from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead last week. Ito had accepted both an unspecified donation to the lab and private investment into several of Ito s own investment funds from Epstein, who had already been sentenced as a sex offender by the time these investments took place in 2013.Read Full Story

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