"On the FIRST day of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial The CEO of Twitter resigned The CEO of Walmart resigned The CEO of CNBC resigned," says a screenshot of a tweet shared on Facebook on November 30, 2021.
Other examples of the claim appeared on Facebook here, here and here, Instagram here and Twitter here and here.
Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and is now on trial, accused of procuring teenage girls for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She could spend the rest of her life in prison if she is convicted on all six counts of enticing and transporting minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Her trial, which began on November 29, 2021, has been the subject of various inaccurate claims and speculation. The latest attempts to tie the resignation of several high-powered business leaders to the ongoing trial offer no evidence to support the connection. Below, AFP examines the situation at each company.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced on November 29 he would be stepping down as CEO. In a letter to staff shared on Twitter, he said it was the right time for the company to "break away from its founding and founders."
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