[Garoof]

It's a reading comprehension thing. We're obviously going back in time, to some kind of cause, at "Her crime?". And then "Shortly thereafter" follows the sentence about the tweet and there is no reason to assume it refers to some earlier sentence.

[gonvaled]

Sure, you are perfectly right. The reason why I point it out is that, even though I was familiar with the story, reading that gave me the impression that Adria was the first to be fired. I had to re-check the facts to make sure I was not mistaken.

Is that relevant? You bet! The way Adria handled this issue was the main reason why she was fired: having a person loose his job over a sexist remark is overreaction (even Adria admitted this). But having a developer-relations person loose her job because developers are very angry at her is maybe not that surprising.

Is that confusion intended by the article author? I think so!

[Garoof]

"Is that confusion intended by the article author?"

Probably not. Most everything can be misunderstood, but it's not really a particularly confusing paragraph.