Did Jeffrey Epstein help fund the start of Facebook with a $6.5 million donation to Harvard in 2003?
The donation, financed the work of mathematical biologist [Martin A. Nowak], the director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Epstein agreed to consider raising his total contribution to $30 million after a review of the program’s progress.
Nowak has articles that indicate he used Facebook data/information to conduct studies on societal relationships and cooperation.
“What we are able to do is calculate the critical benefit-to-cost ratio for cooperation to thrive on any fixed population structure,” explained Martin Nowak
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/mathematics-reveals-difference-between-facebook-friends-and-real-friends/
The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was established in 2003 by the 27th Harvard University President Lawrence Summers following an imaginative proposal by Jeffrey Epstein and Benedict Gross. Epstein and Summers served together on the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lawrence Summers emerged as a key economic decision-maker in the Obama administration's response to the Great Recession.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20071213100728/http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
https://web.archive.org/web/20071027052635/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514187
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers