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Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting
1:37pm PDT - September 7th, 2019 ed - TechCrunchJoichi 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. The news was first reported by The New York Times, which had received a copy of an email sent by Ito to university provos…