Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Good. Here’s a particularly damning passage from Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article [1]:<p><i>> According to Swenson, Ito had informed Cohen that Epstein “never goes into any room without his two female ‘assistants,’ ” whom he wanted to bring to the meeting at the Media Lab. Swenson objected to this, too, and it was decided that the assistants would be allowed to accompany Epstein but would wait outside the meeting room.</i><p><i>> On the day of the visit, Swenson’s distress deepened at the sight of the young women. “They were models. Eastern European, definitely,” she told me. Among the lab’s staff, she said, “all of us women made it a point to be super nice to them. We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they’re not there by choice, we could maybe help them.”</i><p>Ito worked with someone whom his staff suspected of continuing to traffic women — <i>right there in their own office</i>.<p>He also enriched himself from this relationship. From this NYT article:<p><i>> Mr. Ito acknowledged this past week taking $525,000 of Mr. Epstein’s money for the lab, as well as $1.2 million for his personal investment funds.</i><p>Truly despicable.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...</a>