MIT scientist resigns over emails discussing academic linked to Epstein

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. Photograph: Charles Krupa/APThe computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from MIT and the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he founded and led, after leaked emails appeared to show him downplaying another academic’s alleged participation in the purported sex trafficking of minors by Jeffrey Epstein.On his personal website, Stallman wrote: “I am resigning effective immediately from my position in [the Computer