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This new @RonanFarrow report should erase any doubt that @Joi has no business running @medialab and @MIT must do a complete, independent examination of Epstein's involvement.
— Siva Vaidhyanathan??? (@sivavaid) September 7, 2019
In addition, all those people who endorsed Joi staying on should reconsider. https://t.co/5xQCjeMWuS
Wow. NYT spiked this story. https://t.co/1VOLD1LcRr
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) September 7, 2019
How an elite university research center concealed its relationship with a sex offender—documents show MIT Media Lab accepted donations directed by Jeffrey Epstein far in excess of what the university has admitted to, and worked to cover it up: https://t.co/KTdYdCbZ6u
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019
New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted. @ronanfarrow https://t.co/EtzwqRySAR
— David Rohde (@RohdeD) September 7, 2019
Joi could have resigned without allowing a lot of his students and friends to stake their reputations on defending him, but the one common thread in Joi's dealings with Epstein is that he has only done the right thing after he's been caught. https://t.co/tT4BwbKFpT
— Clay Shirky (@cshirky) September 7, 2019
I think I also need to address @techreview's relationships here. We are owned by @MIT, but editorially independent. @Joi sits on our board, whose other members are also MIT officers. https://t.co/hdrXRvxSoQ
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) September 7, 2019
The effort to conceal the lab’s contact with Epstein was so widely known that some staff in the office of the lab’s director, @Joi, referred to Epstein as Voldemort or “he who must not be named.” @ronanfarrow https://t.co/EtzwqRySAR
— David Rohde (@RohdeD) September 7, 2019
For people asking what the MIT Media Lab does, might be helpful to look at their 2010 list of top 25 commercialized products: https://t.co/nzyMONQLSP E-ink, Scratch, Guitar Hero, as well as a clock that runs away and "karaoke-on-demand": pic.twitter.com/dGyeerlXtU
— Angela Chen (@chengela) September 7, 2019
These are among the emails I asked Joi Ito and Reid Hoffman and others to make public. They pushed me off. I guess I should have just gone to @RonanFarrow first.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
Joi Ito should be fired from MIT’s Media Lab after taking funding from felon Jeffrey Epstein. My column https://t.co/Supr9rP0so
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) September 6, 2019
I was wrong to sign the letter because it backgrounded the injury Epstein wrought, such as referring to accusations rather than a conviction, and because it may have appeared that any support would be unconditional and forever. I’m sorry.
— Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain) September 7, 2019
In October, 2014, Media Lab received $2M donation from Bill Gates; Ito wrote in an internal email, “This is a $2M gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” Cohen replied, “For gift recording purposes, we will not B mentioning Jeffrey’s name as the impetus for this gift https://t.co/eTbd1d1RWU
— ?? QellBell ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ?? (@qellbell) September 7, 2019
The donations were listed as “anonymous.” I’ve always assumed anonymous donors were people too humble to want recognition. What a rube. https://t.co/VfcpVcffzu
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) September 7, 2019
This shouldn't be a Friday night news drop. This is really, really fucked up. First the Aaron Swartz mess and now this. Sorry, MIT, it's now clear that whatever "innocent" explanations that were tried before this, that's all bullshit. https://t.co/DsHB1DGMmZ
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) September 7, 2019
This is so much worse than I could possibly have imagined, and I can imagine a lot. https://t.co/N0kBzO8YLd
— Leigh Honeywell (@hypatiadotca) September 7, 2019
Within MIT’s internal politics this is probably the end of the Lab’s privileged status within the Institute. This is *precisely* what the faculty feared when Nicholas and Wiesner convinced President Gray to let them raise their own money from non-standard donors and own their IP.
— Jason Pontin (@jason_pontin) September 7, 2019
I support both these awesome women - who have different perspectives on what should come next - and anyone who's speaking up about their reactions to Joi/Epstein/MIT... including those who think Joi's apology was sufficient and we should move on.
— Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) August 29, 2019
I told the @nytimes everything. So did whistleblowers I was in touch with inside @MIT and @Edge. They printed none of the most damning truths. @joi is on the board of the NYT.
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) September 7, 2019
THANK GOD FOR @RonanFarrow https://t.co/MMFI9umhf2
if you have Ronan Farrow on the case, no need for a pit bull. https://t.co/K2ok9RtzQK
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) September 7, 2019
if i were some institution or person who had also taken epsteins money, i’d try to get out ahead of the investigative reporting, because it’s certainly coming for everyone.
— EricaJoy @ XOXO (@EricaJoy) September 7, 2019
*staring directly at the tech industry* https://t.co/mmELQI30KA
250 signatories at https://t.co/fe8zkxF1M7
— ???☕️ (@hunterwalk) September 7, 2019
hope 250 people are reading Ronan's article pic.twitter.com/wpNDF1LxRY
Jeffrey Epstein was marked as “disqualified” in MIT’s official donor database, but its Media Lab continued to accept donations from him and avoided disclosing the full extent of his contributions. @ronanfarrow https://t.co/EtzwqRySAR
— David Rohde (@RohdeD) September 7, 2019
After Epstein was a convicted sex offender, listed as "disqualified" from donating in MIT's database, MIT Media Lab worked closely with Epstein, secretly taking donations from him or labeled as having been secured at his direction, from his contacts, including Bill Gates. pic.twitter.com/o96hQYTku7
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019
More enablers. Glad they’re getting called out. Don’t stop. That’s what will minimize pathetic men like Epstein & Nassar. When institutions are ashamed to enable them. https://t.co/KgK4kMVBFd
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) September 7, 2019
Update: Ito’s resigned. Not just as head of the lab, also as a professor.
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) September 7, 2019
The truth MIT doesn’t want to hear: “MIT should send a strong message by showing Ito the door of the Media Lab, which specializes in technology with a social-justice bent and prides itself on exploring ethical questions.” - @Sulliview https://t.co/dFb99sEwPl
— Staci D Kramer (@sdkstl) September 6, 2019
This piece from @RonanFarrow adds devastating detail to what was already a devastating story. MIT needs to face up to this, and now. https://t.co/O3aP3Lbjhx
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) September 7, 2019
“They were models. Eastern European, definitely...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.” https://t.co/aTt2CzuXtL
— Claudia Black (@TheClaudiaBlack) September 7, 2019
JUST IN: Joi Ito resigning from Media Lab, MIT. Story tk.
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) September 7, 2019
Holy crap.
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) September 7, 2019
"In 2014, Joi Ito wrote to Jeffrey Epstein soliciting a cash infusion, asking, “Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K?” Epstein replied, “yes.” Forwarding the response to a staff member, Ito wrote, “Make sure this gets accounted for as anonymous.”
...
We (@techreview) already asked @MIT to tell us the guidelines on what sources of money/donors are and aren't acceptable, and how the review process works. We'll now be asking for this list of "disqualified" donors too.
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) September 7, 2019
I'm seeing the conversation about Ito veer off course a bit this morning. Don't get me wrong - Ito MUST go, but I'm seeing some false conclusion being drawn 1) about MIT @medialab and 2) how philanthropy works, or at least how it's supposed to work. 1/
— Vivian Schiller (@vivian) September 7, 2019
Good. Now quit the @nytimes board. https://t.co/Fh4AN31Utz
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
I’m a skeptical about how much “directing” Epstein did. Joi and Nicholas et al have contacts with Gates and all major private and institutional donor. And Epstein always exaggerated his connections and influence.
— Jason Pontin (@jason_pontin) September 7, 2019
But to be clear, this Farrow piece is a catastrophe for the Lab.
A dream start-up would have Joi Ito responsible for ethics, Reid Hoffman for disobedience, Peter Thiel for compassion, and Nicholas Negroponte for humility.
— Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) September 7, 2019
So, Ito has to resign, Cohen has to resign, and I have a LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR BILL GATES. https://t.co/49i9x3GgAc
— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) September 7, 2019
This is what moral bankruptcy looks like. The scope and scale of the deliberate deceit is breathtaking. Ito should be forced off every board he sits on, especially those of grantmaking and journalism institutions. https://t.co/65m3vzNdyj
— Daniel Kreiss (@kreissdaniel) September 7, 2019
Dear @Joi,
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
After this report from @RonanFarrow, detailing your complicity with Epstein, it’s over.
I always found you nice. You’ve mentored many of my friends.
But unless you want to drag MIT and @nytimes down with you, find the dignity to resign. https://t.co/N5fyl2IXxD
I have asked @Joi and @reidhoffman and members of the Disobedience Award jury by email if @RonanFarrow bombshell changes any of their minds about anything. No word yet. https://t.co/S9WLQj2SRM
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
“...although Epstein was listed as “disqualified” in M.I.T.’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...”
— Staci D Kramer (@sdkstl) September 7, 2019
Forward email sent to provost, cc-ing President:
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) September 7, 2019
“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.”
Well that’s that. Hose the place out: How An Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/sX0dlvwkty
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) September 7, 2019
It sounds like someone is resigning over this Epstein nonsense at MIT, so everything is fixed and we can all go back to enjoying the same broken system.
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) September 7, 2019
This obviously raises a lot of questions about @Joi, but also about @MIT's "processes and principles". How are they enforced? What latitude do faculty have to ignore them? Is money from a "disqualified" donor still allowed in some circumstances?
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) September 7, 2019
Ito wrote in an internal e-mail, “This is a $2M gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” Cohen replied, “For gift recording purposes, we will not be mentioning Jeffrey’s name as the impetus for this gift.” https://t.co/JM41Ec5XF2
— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) September 7, 2019
Um, so here’s a question.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
Why did @BillGates, the world’s chief philanthropist, use Jeffrey Epstein as a conduit for donations, according to @RonanFarrow’s piece?
https://t.co/N5fyl2IXxD
Related: A list of 20 boards on which Joi Ito, MIT's disgraced director of the MIT Media Lab, sits. https://t.co/jf37MRl5Ul pic.twitter.com/H23Glxp620
— David Beard (@dabeard) September 7, 2019
Some time ago, I was asked by Joi Ito, head of MIT's @medialab, to be a juror for its Disobedience Award. I agreed.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 6, 2019
Now I quit.
Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein and the way elite, mostly male networks protect people like him — and each other.
Let me explain.https://t.co/WobUHOVmgJ pic.twitter.com/AE2jL9YlZl
Jeffrey Epstein’s money bought a coverup at the MIT Media Lab https://t.co/lwUiWOEbU5
— Quartz (@qz) September 7, 2019
The MIT Media Lab is struggling to heal the rift caused caused by the relationship between its director, Joichi Ito, and Jeffrey Epstein. W/ @marcatracy and @eringriffith https://t.co/yNMchCxwzl
— Tiffany Hsu (@tiffkhsu) September 6, 2019
Some time ago, I was asked by Joi Ito, head of MIT's @medialab, to be a juror for its Disobedience Award. I agreed.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 6, 2019
Now I quit.
Thanks to Jeffrey Epstein and the way elite, mostly male networks protect people like him — and each other.
Let me explain.https://t.co/WobUHOVmgJ pic.twitter.com/AE2jL9YlZl
未成年性的虐待容疑のエプスタインから資金援助を受けていたMITメディアラボの伊藤穣一所長がいよいよ窮地。NYTとWaPoが辞任止む無しの大型記事。NHK番組の司会も務めた人なのに、日本でろくに報じられていないのはなぜなのかhttps://t.co/OO2ziVBiuvhttps://t.co/JHbl4UQn7q
— junkTokyo (@junktokyo) September 6, 2019
This article in the New York Times waits until the 14th paragraph to reveal that the subject of the article sits on the board of the New York Times. https://t.co/QMO3D5ARYm
— ? damned sinker ? (@dansinker) September 6, 2019
Joi Ito, the head of MIT Media Lab and a New York Times board member, is a charmer who runs with Ted Talkers and tech billionaires. He kept his job(s) after revealing that he took $$ from Jeffrey Epstein, report @tiffkhsu, @marcatracy and @eringriffith. https://t.co/BMjyLtLnaE
— Jim Windolf (@jimwindolf) September 6, 2019
MIT’s Joi Ito visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island twice and pocketed $1.2 million for his personal ventures from the registered sex offender. https://t.co/0ezz9xOhvx @MIT @medialab
— David Beard (@dabeard) September 6, 2019
All I did was ghost them early in the process; shout out to @starkness for turning down an actual offer https://t.co/hXbyA9hfiq pic.twitter.com/r7pMT2DiBX
— Leigh Honeywell (@hypatiadotca) September 7, 2019
This tweet didn't age well. https://t.co/eWp4V5I1Ig pic.twitter.com/HjQEw0F89U
— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) September 6, 2019
More signs the MIT Media Lab is a sick place: Ito ran to the Times to disavow Negroponte, crying crocodile tears. https://t.co/ePmr9tPC0Y
— Elizabeth Lopatto (@mslopatto) September 6, 2019
"Sarah Szalavitz, a social designer and external fellow at the lab, said in an interview that she had told Mr. Ito in December 2013 that the lab should stop collaborating with Mr. Epstein, and had given him a memo outlining her concerns" https://t.co/YS9HRQWD9l I see u @DearSarah
— (((Rachel Sklar))) ❄️ (@rachelsklar) September 6, 2019
“The New York Times Company, where Mr. Ito has been a board member since 2012, declined to comment for this article.” https://t.co/zEJnaVIbEs
— Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) September 6, 2019
#NEW: The Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab resigns after acknowledging he and other administrators concealed the Lab’s association with Jeffrey Epstein. @OANN https://t.co/eE6PshV1jQ
— Chloe Salsameda (@ChloeSalsameda) September 7, 2019
New from @tiffkhsu and me: Emails indicate effort by MIT administrators to hide Epstein gifts and their understanding that Epstein directed gifts from Bill Gates and Leon Black. https://t.co/t0OEQavB1K
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/9IXVhV13vt
— Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) September 7, 2019
Good. Now quit the @nytimes board. https://t.co/Fh4AN31Utz
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
Joi Ito has resigned. https://t.co/ZTKWiGeR9a
— Daniel Schuman (@danielschuman) September 7, 2019
Here's NYT story.https://t.co/SUTuDII7Db
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 7, 2019
Note 3: NYT has not reported it forced out a senior reporter, Landon Thomas Jr., in January for similarly soliciting contributions from Epstein - $30K for a pre-school in Harlem. My earlier piece:https://t.co/XLZIxpfqdB
Here’s story on @Joi resigning from @MIT after being caught concealing some of Epstein’s involvement. More to come. https://t.co/IF9hj3QmQW
— David Enrich (@davidenrich) September 7, 2019
About time.https://t.co/7a2Jji2KAB
— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/Ah0aAxzxfj
— _Cryptome_ (@_cryptome_) September 7, 2019
.@MIT @MediaLab director @Joi resigns. https://t.co/UAIuz5OB9Q
— Robert Rutledge (@rerutled) September 7, 2019
?BREAKING: Joichi Ito, the director of the @MIT’s Media Lab who secretly took in MILLIONS of dollars from serial pedophile Jeffrey #Epstein—has RESIGNED.
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) September 7, 2019
Bye, Felicia‼️https://t.co/ePkpnBtD7G
Joi Ito has resigned from the MIT Media Lab https://t.co/1dEfrebYKX
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) September 7, 2019
From Theranos to the MIT Media Lab: Whistleblowing may not end the game of (abuse/corruption) but can still be a game changer (so let's protect and support them) https://t.co/LLWaqfPjZ6
— Gabriella Coleman (@BiellaColeman) September 7, 2019
Once again, brave whistleblowers and diligent journalists create accountability where institutions fail. Time’s up. #timesup https://t.co/wu4wCA3v5r
— Tamara Cofman Wittes (@tcwittes) September 7, 2019
うわ、急展開。伊藤穣一氏がMITメディアラボ所長を7日付で辞任、とNYTが特報。ローナン・ファロー砲がとどめだったのかな。伊藤氏はNYTの社外取締役も兼務しているんだけど、「同社はコメントしていない」とのことhttps://t.co/za6cdq4TLS
— junkTokyo (@junktokyo) September 7, 2019
This is a starting point, not a victory. There is healing to do and structural problems to work on. Think of Epstein’s victims, the ML community’s trauma, and those who up til now relied on Joi for their jobs. May we all find healing as we move forward. https://t.co/AUKLuH4ruW
— Erhardt Graeff (@erhardt) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/9ZJ46ZI5XM
— k hank #resist (@khankiso) September 7, 2019
Finally. Love and solidarity with all the women at the lab who have been triggered and traumatized since news started leaking out.
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/EI1TkPwamA h/t @rerutled
Director of MIT’s Media Lab resigns following the outcry over the arrangements for funding of the facility by Jeffrey Epstein: https://t.co/MlRNstHmyn
— Graham Farmelo (@grahamfarmelo) September 7, 2019
It would be a ton of fun to start looking around New Orleans to figure out which non-profits, universities, and wannabe start-ups might have some Epstein money sitting around somewhere. https://t.co/kEkAJBLtZA
— skooks (@skooks) September 7, 2019
"Full of factual errors" - without any detail or justification - is academia-speak for "Fake News"
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) September 7, 2019
And Ito's conduct and constant obfuscations make him more like Trump than he has the self-awareness to understand.https://t.co/ch1C3rNz0V pic.twitter.com/X0TevIfb0W
Holy Geezuz! Stop the digital presses! Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab, Joichi Ito, Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/O3sErR6ZMn wow. @RonanFarrow @medialab @MIT @AnandWrites
— Jack Hutton (@jackhutton) September 7, 2019
This is the right thing to do.
This just happened. https://t.co/gFZjSItP3c
— Lisa Nakamura (@lnakamur) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/m54itXL8Bz
— Phil Baty (@Phil_Baty) September 7, 2019
The thing that stuck out to me about the MIT Media Lab/Epstein is how women who worked there felt compelled to try and help possibly sex-trafficked girls. What a toxic work environment for those female academics. https://t.co/yjLrfP6p38 pic.twitter.com/3Xz1ETgAyE
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) September 7, 2019
Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab's director, is stepping down, less than a day after our @NewYorker story (https://t.co/KTdYdCbZ6u) reported on documents and claims from whistleblowers about an extensive effort by the lab to conceal its contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/FQKdOEPmB1
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019
“At that point it hit me: this pedophile is going to be in our office.” - MIT whistleblower on 2015@RonanFarrow: Epstein arranged least $7.5M in gifts to MIT Media Lab - a far greater relationship than Ito acknowledged. (Ito also sits on NYT Co board) https://t.co/eTV78mFS2b
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 7, 2019
How an elite university research center concealed its relationship with a sex offender—documents show MIT Media Lab accepted donations directed by Jeffrey Epstein far in excess of what the university has admitted to, and worked to cover it up: https://t.co/KTdYdCbZ6u
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019
これは完全にアウト。日本の、そしてアメリカのITにとってキーマンである伊藤穰一氏がディレクターをつとめるMITメディアラボ、性犯罪者のジェフリー・エプスタインからの寄付を知りながら隠していた。日本語のニュースが少ないので、詳細はスレッドに。 https://t.co/X9ErQkxwwa
— 石田 健, donc イシケン (@ishiken_bot) September 7, 2019
Pedophile Epstein Oversaw $8,000,000 in philanthropy to Media Lab, not $800,000 Administrators Reported
— McLNeuro (@McLNeuro) September 7, 2019
Looks like we are getting closer to the truth.https://t.co/XG2XbKNTjb
So many shocking details in this story. Perhaps the part that horrifies me most is the utter lack of regard for student safety. They knowingly brought a serial child predator into an educational institution, and covered it up. https://t.co/S2qh4XAah6
— Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) September 7, 2019
This is absolutely nauseating. MIT should fire w/Joi Ito immediately. Having him remain would be the death knell of the @medialab. The craven, insatiable desire for $ apparently overrides any sense of morals. It makes me physically ill. https://t.co/IRu2F9ZPeq
— Seth Mnookin (@sethmnookin) September 7, 2019
Essential read this morning: Ronan Farrow's incredibly well-researched article shows that connections between MIT's Media lab and Epstein were way more extensive than previously revealed. Heads will roll...https://t.co/IVLaaLesQh
— Denis Wirtz (@deniswirtz) September 7, 2019
How An Elite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epsteinhttps://t.co/V1wWL10GFG
— Culttture (@culttture) September 7, 2019
How An Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/FPbBG8z8Rc
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) September 7, 2019
In light of this new reporting around the Epstein money at MIT, @BrownCSDept should immediately remove Peter Cohen as Director of Development for CS/data science. This is in unconscionable. https://t.co/BmpKrxlfyr pic.twitter.com/kLhGBn7zbV
— Alexa VanHattum (@avanhatt) September 7, 2019
When @RonanFarrow writes a story about you, have your affairs in order. https://t.co/CfZjGYhcM7 https://t.co/C0GL1W2oxx
— Jennifer Drayton (@DraytonJennifer) September 7, 2019
The Media Lab had less than 30 faculty, yet, I still had less access to the director than Epstein did. But while I have a decade of similar stories. My intention is not simply to smear a leader that has been proven to be aware of his wrongdoing 10/: https://t.co/FnaEU5twIP
— Cesar A. Hidalgo (@cesifoti) September 7, 2019
Dear @Joi,
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
After this report from @RonanFarrow, detailing your complicity with Epstein, it’s over.
I always found you nice. You’ve mentored many of my friends.
But unless you want to drag MIT and @nytimes down with you, find the dignity to resign. https://t.co/N5fyl2IXxD
BREAKING: New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted. https://t.co/PEKsFf9FVD
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 7, 2019
New documents show that M.I.T. was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the university’s media lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.https://t.co/5IKvZvdoZO
— Tiffany FitzHenry (@Tiff_FitzHenry) September 7, 2019
It’s almost like Epstein was a mob boss. https://t.co/DSP1JEcHaW pic.twitter.com/96Gs54U0ac
— Operation Wolverines (@OpWolverines) September 7, 2019
'In 2014 @medialab received a $2M donation fr @billgates; @joi wrote in an internal e-mail, “This is a $2M gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” Cohen replied,“For gift recording purposes, we will not be mentioning Jeffrey’s name" @ronanfarrow https://t.co/FUV9Ch2VvY
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 7, 2019
New documents show that M.I.T. was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the university’s media lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.https://t.co/5IKvZvdoZO
— Tiffany FitzHenry (@Tiff_FitzHenry) September 7, 2019
MIT 미디어 랩, 엡스타인을 '볼드모트'라고 언급하여 정체성을 은폐 https://t.co/AFxXSMgYAc
— editoy (@editoy) September 8, 2019
• MIT 미디어 랩의 개발 및 전략 담당 이사인 Peter Cohen은 "Jeffrey money는 익명이어야 합니다."라고 이메일을 통해 반복해서 언급했습니다.
'When @starkness was raising for @lightning in 2015, someone at @medialab offered to invest Mr. Epstein’s money. Ms. Stark found a news article & turned it down. “In 5 mins I was able to Google and make a determination that seemed like such a no-brainer."https://t.co/0fTKEXvyXI
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 6, 2019
"Joichi Ito gave himself some advice in 2008: “Reminder to self,” he wrote on Twitter. “Don’t invest with or take money from creeps,” although he used an earthier term.
— Lisa Goldman (@lisang) September 6, 2019
Then, over the next decade, he accepted about $1.7 million from Jeffrey Epstein."https://t.co/Whhy8OXnpr
What about purging Amazon and other horrible corporations from @MIT Media Lab? Oh, that’s right — in America, billionaire predators are not shunned and expelled from society for routine economic and political violence. https://t.co/6ZAAe6ijXw pic.twitter.com/dfBZ62aDs5
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) September 8, 2019
You know what must be scary? Reporting on a board member of your own news organization in this precarious era in media.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 7, 2019
Big congrats to @tiffkhsu, @marcatracy, and @eringriffith for their work on this story.https://t.co/WobUHOVmgJ
本当、初手で全部いって辞任しなかったのわけわからんし、メディアラボ自体もういらんやん、こんなんだったらhttps://t.co/hX5LVJaEb6
— HRK (@hncgu) September 7, 2019
MITメディアラボの伊藤穰一所長が辞任。Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/wcVA6GDzZH
— Dr. Roy Ich-Meyer (@ichimiyar) September 7, 2019
そして先ほど、伊藤氏が辞任。あまり新しい情報はなし。https://t.co/LYcZj5SXbN
— 石田 健, donc イシケン (@ishiken_bot) September 8, 2019
MITメディア・ラボの伊藤穣一所長が辞任とNYT報道。同研究所は、児童買春容疑で拘束中に自殺した投資家ジェフリー・エプスタイン氏から80万ドル、同氏の協力で750万ドルの寄付受取。所員は同氏絡みの寄付を隠蔽疑惑。https://t.co/nC846i6tA4
— 和田浩明/Hiroaki Wada (@spearsden) September 7, 2019
? Latest Jeffrey Epstein News/Thread ?
— Alex (@aroseblush) September 8, 2019
? Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein ?https://t.co/FW4a1YhUOI
Once it became clear Ito had violated university policy, it enabled the administration to say this was just a bad apple rather than a systemic problem. As usual, Farrow frames these issues as matters of personal morality, obscuring the systemic issues. https://t.co/G5IZmmAuhz
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) September 7, 2019
MITメディアラボの伊藤穰一氏、辞任ですか。https://t.co/G9aXoIfZOo
— Masayoshi Nakamura (@masayang) September 7, 2019
Think his name is on the Flight Manifest to the ISLAND?????
— ??RED Dawn?? (@cj0rdan) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/0SJyoDlnXC
Joi Ito has left the board of directors of the @nytimes as well as a visiting professorship at Harvard after quitting MIT for taking sex felon Jeffrey Epstein’s money. https://t.co/knrB9fdZoa pic.twitter.com/FjAjxjtQsA
— David Beard (@dabeard) September 8, 2019
It takes an article in @newyorker & threat of another one in the @nytimes that leads folks at @medialab to do the right thing. Let’s not kid ourselves - the bad behavior isn’t going away anytime soon. https://t.co/t9WHBkDiPQ
— OM (@om) September 7, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Outcry Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties https://t.co/uiayVOjoMJ おお、例のニューヨーカーの糾弾記事によって伊藤穰一氏がメディアラボの所長を辞めましたね。
— Yuta Kashino (@yutakashino) September 7, 2019
And also, for those of us endlessly calling out the constant, casual, destructive bias against female candidates in @NYTimes:
— Ohm (Unit of Resistance) (@HereToResist) September 7, 2019
"[Ito] has been a board member of The New York Times Company since 2012." https://t.co/dmq2KBa5SP
残念だなあ
— 神保哲生 (@tjimbo) September 8, 2019
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epsteinhttps://t.co/zLxrEHdPWC
— rad1ecks(cyan) (@0x00a1e9) September 8, 2019
Even after Epstein was listed as “disqualified” in MIT’s official donor database, the Media Lab “accept[ed] gifts from him, consulted him about the use of the funds, and, by marking his contributions as anonymous, avoided disclosing their full extent.” https://t.co/wWsvphbk7H
— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) September 8, 2019
Update: after our story last night on MIT Media Lab's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, Joi Ito, the lab's director, resigned, and MIT's President announced an independent investigation: https://t.co/KTdYdCbZ6u pic.twitter.com/Ad83z0k80v
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) September 7, 2019
MITメディアラボの伊藤穣一所長が土曜日に辞任表明した件。前日にNEWYORKER誌が同ラボのエプシュタイン寄付隠蔽工作を調査報道で暴露していた。伊藤所長自身も隠蔽をメールで直接指示している。これは辞任だけで済む問題ではないだろう。https://t.co/Y3LOWuGN6k
— deepthroat (@gloomynews) September 8, 2019
'Cohen agreed Epstein was “unsavory” but said “we’re planning to do it anyway—this was @Joi’s project.” Staffers entered the meeting into Ito’s calendar w/o including Epstein’s name. They also tried to keep his name out of e-mails' @ronanfarrow @newyorker https://t.co/FUV9Ch2VvY
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 7, 2019
'She assumed Cohen raised the matter “to test whether I would be confidential & feel out whether I would be OK” Swenson had seen Epstein was listed in @MIT’s central donor database as disqualified. “I knew he was a pedophile & pointed that out,” she said.'https://t.co/FUV9Ch2VvY
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 7, 2019
'Cohen wrote future filings related to Epstein should be submitted only “if there is a way to do it quietly.” An agent for @billgates wrote to @medialab stating Gates also wished to keep his name out of any public discussion of the donation' @RonanFarrow https://t.co/FUV9Ch2VvY
— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) September 7, 2019
これ読むと、伊藤穰一、確信犯だったんだなと思う。これだけ世間がカネの出所に対してうるさくなる中、未成年者の人身売買という擁護しようのない罪。それを知ってた上で隠蔽。辞めるよね。日本ではなぜ報道しないんだろう？エプスタインの話自体、理解してる人が少ないのか。https://t.co/AgnVCVYav8
— Yuko Watanabe 渡邊 裕子????? (@ywny) September 8, 2019
New report from @RonanFarrow: New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted: https://t.co/1UV6lWn6Qj
— Lainna Fader ? (@lainnafader) September 7, 2019
New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted. -@RonanFarrow https://t.co/VxHII1tLz2
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) September 7, 2019
この記事によると、伊藤氏はMITの献金を受けてはいけない人物のリストに載っているJ. Epsteinの過去を知りながら、MIT本部に隠して献金を受け続けていたそうなので、自業自得ですね。大学への背任罪を問われてもおかしくない。https://t.co/9kDZBo8Wol
— Seigo Izumo (@SeigoIzumo) September 8, 2019
本記事冒頭にも追記されているが、有罪判決を受けた性犯罪者である富豪、エプスタインからの寄付を大学の規約違反と知りつつ隠蔽し受け取っていたというニューヨーカー誌の本記事を受け、MITメディアラボの伊藤穣一所長が辞任を発表した。https://t.co/34J9eDB06v
— Kenji Shiraishi (@Knjshiraishi) September 7, 2019
Academia in the chase for the almighty dollar.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) September 7, 2019
How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/aaKm6itZdS
MIT Prof. Ethan Zuckerman: “I heard you’re meeting with Epstein. I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 7, 2019
MIT's Joi Ito: “You know, he’s really fascinating. Would you like to meet him?” https://t.co/9zuKN2aQB5