A prominent writer cut ties with MIT’s Media Lab and blasted the center on Twitter for taking money from “pariahs” like Jeffrey Epstein.
Giridharadas wrote that when The Media Lab asked him to be a juror he assumed it was because “they wanted to add someone skeptical of the billionaire-academic-industrial complex.” He wrote that Ito was an acquaintance whom he respected.
Ito at a recent gathering reportedly acknowledged the “damage” his taking money from Epstein caused. He also admitted visiting Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean twice to raise money and pledged “to return or donate” the funds to “causes that support sex-trafficking victims,” The New York Times reported.
“Think about it,” he wrote. “A felonious sexual predator needs redemption after his conviction. He donates to universities as part of this pursuit. And in this case, the director of a lab parlays that university relationship into one for personal profit.”Epstein used MIT, Giridharadas wrote, and “the university uses the predator.”
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