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September 8, 2019 01:34 am
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MIT Media Lab Chief Joi Ito Resigns Following Ronan Farrow's New Yorker Expose
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:It was beginning to look like Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, might weather a scandal over accepting donations from the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But less than a day after a scathing new expose in the New Yorker by Ronan Farrow alleged the Media Lab had a deeper fund-raising relationship with Epstein than previously acknowledged and attempted to conceal the extent of its contacts with him, Ito resigned from his position. "After giving the matter a great deal of thought over the past several days and weeks, I think that it is best that I resign as director of the media lab and as a professor and employee of the Institute, effective immediately," Ito wrote in an internal e-mail. In a message to the MIT community, MIT President L. Rafael Reif wrote, "Because the accusations in the story are extremely serious, they demand an immediate, thorough and independent investigation," and announced that MIT's general counsel would engage an outside law firm to oversee that investigation. Ronan's damning New Yorker story began: "Dozens of pages of e-mails and other documents obtained by The New Yorker reveal that, although Epstein was listed as 'disqualified' in MIT's official donor database, the Media Lab continued to accept gifts from him, consulted him about the use of the funds, and, by marking his contributions as anonymous, avoided disclosing their full extent, both publicly and within the university. Perhaps most notably, Epstein appeared to serve as an intermediary between the lab and other wealthy donors, soliciting millions of dollars in donations from individuals and organizations, including the technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates and the investor Leon Black." "The effort to conceal the lab's contact with Epstein was so widely known," reports the New Yorker, that some of Ito's staff "referred to Epstein as Voldemort or 'he who must not be named.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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