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Parag Agrawal
Parag Agrawal is an Indian software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022.
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business · Former CEO of Twitter (born 1984) · business executive · chief executive officer · chief technology officer · computer scientist · also Parag Agrawal, P. Agrawal, Agrawal
Born 21 May 1984 · Q100276124
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 4 entries
The Quint rated the claim “Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was arrested for possession of child pornography.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal arrested for child porn” Made-Up Story.
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India Today rated the claim “Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has been arrested for the possession of child pornography.” False.
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fact checker rated the claim ““Assad must go,” tweeted Parag Agrawal via his official Twitter account.” sarcastic.
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2021· 3 entries
Alt News rated the claim “Old racist and offensive tweets by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal” False.
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Dorsey announced that he was resigning as CEO of Twitter and that Agrawal was replacing him immediately
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2021–2022).
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2020· 3 entries
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,065 times.
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“Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation ... [and to] focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,054 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 4,634 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 4,155 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,014 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,200 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,184 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,088 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Published “Safety and Activity of Anti–PD-L1 Antibody in Patients with Advanced Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,763 times.
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Is titled "Incorporating Uncertainty in Data Management and Integration"
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Published “Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 10,853 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Agrawal obtained his BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay
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2001· 1 entry
Completed his Class 12 at Atomic Energy Junior College, Mumbai
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1993· 1 entry
Published “Mining association rules between sets of items in large databases” in Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data — cited 6,328 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984-05-21.
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