The Disinformation Machine: Gaurav Srivastava, Wikipedia, and the Crisis of the Modern Reputation
This review of episodes 4 and 5 of Targeted zeros in on the “emotional and aesthetic dissonance of being digitally erased, rewritten, and misunderstood, while still having to show up every day, put on a suit, and smile politely in spaces that once welcomed you.” The article pieces together the tools of how Gaurav Srivastava’s reputation was trashed an curated to the point of “Every parent in the school turned their back on us.”