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.
The Disinformation Machine: Gaurav Srivastava, Wikipedia, and the Crisis of the Modern Reputation
A review of the second part of Gaurav Srivastava’s interview on Targeted covers the deeply personal impact the smear campaign has had on his personal and family life. From parents in his kids school refusing to bring their kids over to birthday parties and play dates to the emotional toll it has taken on him personally.
When the Truth Gets Buried: Gaurav Srivastava and the Mechanics of Modern Disinformation
This review of Targeted covers the echo chamber created by the disinformation campaign against Gaurav Srivastava and the central role Wikipedia played in the saga. As an attack page went up on Wikipedia, senior editors flagged it and took it down - only for the page to be reinstated time after time. Eventually, a sock-puppet inquiry was opened to reveal all the editors managing the page were all logging in from the identical IP address - suggesting “they” were all the same person or several people working from the same physical space. One of Targeted’s producers engaged with one of these Wikipedia editors, who admitted he was being paid for his work and demanded $40,000 to submit to an interview on the podcast. The editor was ultimately thrown off Wikipedia and the attack page remains down.
How lies proliferate into mainstream media
Gaurav Srivastava was targeted. At first by fake news articles in India and Pakistan - but eventually the story was picked up on a respected blog and that was the conduit to perpetuating the targeting campaign in the mainstream media
TARGETED - Gaurav Srivastava - The Businessman Brought Down By Disinformation (Pt. 2)
In part 2 of Targeted, experts break down how the the campaign against Gaurav Srivastava was executed and why it was so devastating. How the great modern-day arbitrers of truth - Google, Wikipedia and mainstream media outlets like the WSJ and the FT were spun a tale which they bought hook, line and sinker, and became unsuspecting participants in a vindictive smear campaign.
In the age of search engines, reputation is a form of currency
When Targeted host, Zach Abramowitz asks Gaurav Srivastava why he didn’t walk away, the response is not indignation, but obligation. “I reported everything I saw,” he says. There is a weariness to his voice. Not regret. Not even rage. Just the exhaustion of being caught in a story that was never his to begin with.
The Court of Public Opinion vs. Justice
When Gaurav Srivastava, a commodities investor with in the energy sector partnered with Dutch oil trader, Niels Troost, he had no idea what he as in store for. Not only was Srivastava unknown as to Troost’s true intentions, Srivastava foudn himself the victim of a smear campaign.
Gaurav Srivastava was not the first business partner Niels Troost has accused of being a fake spy
On the Targeted podcast, Gaurav Srivastava tells host Zach Abramowitz his first inkling that something was up with business partner Niels Troost. Srivastava heard stories about Troost’s former business partners and how shady they were, but now he realises that he placed his trust in the wrong person.
The targeting of Gaurav Srivastava
On episode 4 of @TargetedPodcast tells the story of one of the sophisticated smear campaigns ever seen. From respected businessman and community leader, Gaurav Srivastava found himself a pariah with his reputation torn to shreds. This is a tale of how a smear campaign happened and why it was so effective. When it comes to money and power, some will do anything in order to keep hold of it.
Gaurav Srivastava - The Businessman Brought Down By Disinformation (pt. 1)
Listen to find out how Gaurav Srivastava found himself the victim of a smear campaign designed to take down him, his career and worst of all, his family.
Gaurav Srivastava on Targeted: What does it mean to be targeted?
Targeted Podcast Trailer: What does it mean to be targeted?Gaurav Srivastava was targeted by a smear campaign accusing him of being a fraud.