CEO: "I've not been personally involved in Talia being let go and it was not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me." A coincidence is possible, but

CEO: "I've not been personally involved in Talia being let go and it was not because she posted a Medium letter directed at me." A coincidence is possible, but doesn't sound at all likely ("the CEO didn't personally get involved" sounds like a very specific claim). It is, OTOH, indeed possible that other events were at work - "post hoc, ergo propter hoc;" that the two events might have another (undisclosed) common cause. In other words: the data we have is of the "he said, she said" type...and a lot of emotional filters on all sides (inc. the readers). A strange game.