India, Feb. 4 -- In 2019, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman told news outlet Axios that his last interaction with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein took place in 2015. He has now gone back on this claim, admitting that he met Epstein at least six times after that. At least three of those meetings were in-person.

Hoffman has maintained that all his meetings with Epstein were in connection with fundraising efforts for the MIT Media Lab.

In a post shared on the social media platform X this morning, Hoffman said he "regrets" his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who ran a sex trafficking ring targeting underage girls.

"I only knew Jeffrey Epstein because of a fundraising relationship with MIT, which I very...