This month's cover story, "Gaurav Srivastava: The American Warrior," is a testament to resilience, patriotism, and faith under fire. Srivastava's journey - from a childhood marked by physical suffering to a multimillion-dollar commodities empire, and then through a coordinated international defamation campaign - reads like a modern-day odyssey. But at the core of it is one man's unwavering belief in two forces: God and America.

In a two-part exposé on the podcast Targeted, host Zach Abramowitz delves into the unraveling of commodities investor Gaurav Srivastava’s professional and personal life—charting a descent not into legal trouble, but into the chaotic digital battleground of reputation destruction.

Trageted podcast is now available on Vimeo at vimeo.com/targetedpodcast

Gaurav Srivastava’s official channel is also now available on Vimeo at vimeo.com/officialgauravsrivastava

Targeted podcast goes behind the scenes to the dark underbelly of Wikipedia. They expose a ring of paid Wikipedia editors who were paid to Target Gaurav Srivastava in a smear campaign, citing such publications as project brazen and the WSJ

For Gaurav Srivastava, the first red flag went up when Niels Troost told him a previous business partner of his was a fake spy. Then, more flags went up when Troost kept him in the dark as to what was going on in the business. Troost’s violations of sanctions would eventually be revealed in the audit, but at that point it was already too late - a massive campaign was already underway to set Gaurav up as ‘the fall guy’.

One of the most potent weapons of the smear campaign is the “story about the story”: Once the core arrative has been set, it was leveraged further by reaching out to my friends, family, associates and to organizations I supported. Once one of those organizations distanced themselves from me, or decided the risk of accepting donations from me was too great - a new story would be born and do the rounds. Then these stories were further everaged to the same end: Maintaining a perpetual stream of negative, self-reinforcing stories that would eventually isolate me completely - and false narrative so entangled in its own echo system it could never be undone.

Read more here or listen to the second part of my interview on Targeted to gain an insider’s understanding of how this is ruthlessly executed.