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The narrative war just went nuclear with a shiny new First Amendment digital weapon called Objection. An AI powered platform, launched by Aron D’Souza, the very lawyer who orchestrated Peter Thiel’s decade long legal demolition of Gawker Media is now backed by Thiel himself along with Balaji Srinivasan and fresh millions in seed cash. For a mere $2,000, anyone can trigger a full “public investigation” into any reporter or story. Former FBI, NSA, and CIA officers do the legwork, digging through evidence while a jury of AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and xAI delivers the final verdict. The output? An “Honor Index” score that rates the journalist’s integrity like a digital scarlet letter. Straight out of Orwell’s 1984, this thing promises to wrap up what once dragged through courts for five to ten years in just 72 hours. The man who spent a fortune weaponizing the legal system against a newsroom has now automated the entire process.

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