MIT Media Lab Director Steps Down Following Publication of Epstein Emails

Joi Ito, the embattled director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab resigned Saturday, just hours after The New Yorker published emails showing how he had attempted to conceal donations from the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ito had previously apologized for accepting money from Epstein for the lab and for his own personal ventures. But the newly disclosed emails show he didn't just make the wrong call in accepting the money, as he explained to lab members as recently as Wednesday: he also ordered that Epstein's donations be listed as "anonymous" going back years, as Epstein had been disqualified as a donor following his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor (he was facing additional charges before his death this summer).