Jack Dorsey announced his resignation as Twitter’s chief executive on November 29, 2021. Business Insider’s same-cycle piece on the new CEO, Parag Agrawal, and on diversity questions recapped the August Times story and then stated a then-current status: Twitter had investigated complaints against Davis, “who remains in his post,” and he had said he would take a step back to reconsider his management style.
That is a status line in a newspaper recap. It is not a finding that the investigations cleared him, convicted him, or ended. It is useful for sequence: the August reporting did not, on Insider’s account, remove him before Dorsey left. The 8-K that removed him from the Design and Research Lead chair is dated December 3, 2021 — Agrawal’s first week.
Do not collapse those two weeks into a morality play the documents do not write. The August story is unnamed-source journalism. The November line is a recap. The December filing is a corporate event.