Satirical article shared as former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s arrest for possession of child pornography - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
January 3, 2023
A post is being shared on social media claiming that former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was taken into custody by the FBI for possession of child pornography. Sharing a link to an article, this post claims that the executive was charged with collecting child abuse material from Twitter and other social media platforms. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was arrested for possession of child pornography.
Fact: The article shared in the post is a satirical one. A satirical website named ‘Vancover Times’ published this article by providing a disclaimer at the bottom informing it to be a satirical article. Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was not arrested for any possession of child pornography. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When searched to check whether former CEO Parag Agrawal was arrested for possession of child pornography, we could not find any news reports confirming this information. If Parag Agrawal was arrested for possession of child pornography, it would have been widely reported.
The post shared an article published by a website named ‘Vancover Times’. Informing Parag Agrawal’s arrest for possession of child pornography, this article provided a note at the bottom stating it is a satirical article. This website even updated the article by adding a note, “Fact-checkers wasted their time “fact-checking” this obvious satire article. To ease confusion, the article has been added to the satire section, and a note has been added to the bottom of the article”. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the article shared in the post is a satirical one.
To sum it up, this article reporting former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s arrest for possession of child pornography is a satirical one.