Cognitive bias in mainstream media reporting on Gaurav Srivastava

It’s one thing for pay-to-play media outlets to report fake news - that’s what they are paid for! But why did major news outlets such as the WSJ and the Fincial Times report on the story so one-sidedly? Were they complicit or duped? In the second part of Gaurav Srivastava’s interview on Targeted, Inteligence analyst Victoria Katoka explains how the answer may be neither: How the early stages of the campaign against Gaurav Srivastava had already set a cognitive bias by the time the reporters first heard the name Gaurav Srivastava.