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Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting – TC

Joichi Ito, the embattled director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, has stepped down according to a statement by MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif, writes Brian Heater and Danny Crichton.

Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/07/joi-ito-resigns-as-mit-media-lab-head-in-wake-of-jeffrey-epstein-reporting/

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