No, Former CEO Parag Agrawal was not arrested for child porn

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Explanation

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to convey that he is in search of a new CEO for the company. Recently, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, the inventor of email, tweeted that he is interested in the CEO position. Former CEO Parag Agrawal is one of the executives who got fired after Elon Musk’s takeover.

Amid these Twitter conversations, news of the arrest of Former CEO Parag Agrawal for child porn is viral on Twitter. Several posts included the ‘Vancouver times’ article along with the claim. Some of the posts with such a claim can be seen here, here, here and here.

What is the truth?

One of the tweets with the viral claim by ‘Proud Elephant’ Twitter page in which the caption reads as ‘WOW: Former Twitter CEO Parag has been arrested for child porn’ quoting Vancouver Times article is marked as incorrect by Twitter stating the users’ context as “Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was not arrested for possession of child porn. The website linked, vancouvertimes.org is a self-described satire website. https://vancouvertimes.org/about-us/“.

The ‘about us’ page of the Vancouver Times reads “Vancouver Times is the most trusted source for satire on the West Coast. We write satirical stories about issues that affect conservatives”. The same information was relayed in some tweets.

The article quoted as the source of the claim has mentioned at the bottom that it is a satire article.

Conclusion

It is found that the claim that Former CEO Parag Agrawal was arrested for child porn is fake. The news started circulating when an article published by Vancouver Times as satire is mistaken.