{"id":109304,"date":"2019-09-08T00:10:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/08\/mit-to-investigate-research-labs-ties-to-epstein-as-director-resigns\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T22:10:51","slug":"mit-to-investigate-research-labs-ties-to-epstein-as-director-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109304","title":{"rendered":"MIT to investigate research lab&#039;s ties to Epstein as director resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joi Ito exits after reports claim lab worked to hide extent of financier\u2019s donationsThe president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ordered an independent investigation of the ties between a prestigious research lab at the school and Jeffrey Epstein, the influential financier and convicted sex offender.Joi Ito, the director of the influential MIT Media Lab, submitted his resignation on Saturday, in the wake of continued scrutiny over the center\u2019s financial relationship with Epstein, the university announced in a statement. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2019\/sep\/07\/jeffrey-epstein-mit-media-lab-joi-ito-resigns-reports\" target=\"_blank\">MIT to investigate research lab&#039;s ties to Epstein as director resigns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joi Ito exits after reports claim lab worked to hide extent of financier\u2019s donationsThe president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ordered an independent investigation of the ties between a prestigious research lab at the school and Jeffrey Epstein, the influential financier and convicted sex offender.Joi Ito, the director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}