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Objection, a new AI platform founded by entrepreneur Aron D’Souza and backed by investors including Palantir and PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan, promises a new way of holding journalists and the media to account.The platform is promoted by D’Souza and Thiel, who met at Oxford University, after their involvement in wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea )’s 2013 lawsuit against gossip media site Gawker over its publication of a sex tape featuring the star.“It’s the first time ever in American history that a major media ally was truly held accountable for what they wrote, and Gawker went bankrupt after that,” D’Souza stated.\n\nThe case, which overall took $10m to challenge, was funded by Thiel, as D’Souza noted, “he had his own reasons why he wanted to challenge Gawker”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGawker had previously outed the tech billionaire Thiel as gay in a 2007 blog. D’Souza said the case “taught me that justice is highly inaccessible to most people” and the Hulk, who, despite being “a world-renowned figure…could not afford to prosecute his case through the courts”.Now D’Souza, who also founded the Enhanced Games, a doping version of the Olympic Games, is essentially industrialising what was done with Gawker.\n\nBut this time, D’Souza is deploying AI and former intelligence officers as investigators, including ex‑CIA, FBI, and MI6 figures, to study complaints about journalism submitted to the platform – for a fee. Criticism of expensive lawyers Objection’s launch press release states that “For centuries, the press has acted as the de facto judge of public truth. Outlets investigate, publish, and pronounce verdicts on reputations — with no efficient mechanism for their claims to be rigorously examined in return.”D’Souza, who is critical of the current legal system, says that the court system is not designed to benefit people, corporations or even billionaires. Instead, he says, it is designed to benefit lawyers.He notes that lawyers are billing thousands of dollars an hour, adding, “I don’t think anyone’s time is worth $2,000 an hour”.\n\n“Lawyers are making more money than the bankers”, he says, claiming that many earn more than partners at Goldman Sachs and suggested that the legal sector’s compensation “has gone off the charts”.AI: Judge, jury and executioner?D’Souza’s says that “in 1970, 70 per cent of Americans trusted the news media; today, that’s less than 30 per cent.”","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}