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Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

TechCrunch·Rebecca Bellan·about 2 months ago
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After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D’Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system: People who felt harmed by coverage had little recourse to fight back. His solution is software. D’Souza says his latest startup, Objection , aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism. And for the price of $2,000, anyone can pay to challenge a story, triggering a public investigation into its claims. (D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games , an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.) Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital. Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuit partly in defense of the individual right to privacy, has long been critical of the media.…

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