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“In 2016, when Peter Thiel killed Gawker, he insisted that he wasn’t attacking journalism writ large.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bollea v. Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, professional wrestler …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers that was based in New York City and focused on celebrities and the media industry. According to SimilarWeb, the site had over 23…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker
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“On the contrary, he told the New York Times, he’d spent $10-million secretly backing Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the news outlet because: “I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest… if I didn’t think Gawker was unique, I wouldn’t have done any of this. If the entire media was more or less like this, this would be like trying to boil the ocean.””
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Matthew Danzeisen is an American financier and investor. He was vice president of BlackRock before becoming portfolio manager at Thiel Capital in 2008. He is active in Asia and Asia-Pacific. D…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Danzeisen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thiel Capital is an American company described as a family office, venture capital firm or an investment firm, founded by Peter Thiel. In a 2023 article, Barron's described Thiel Capital as the ventur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Capital
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“Ten years later, with the aid of an “AI tribunal”, a team of intelligence and law enforcement veterans, and a political climate vastly more hostile to press freedom, he is trying to do exactly that, bypassing the courts, short-circuiting the first amendment and making it much, much cheaper to indulge in the quasi-legal harassment of journalists.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Virginia redistricting amendment was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that appeared on the April 21, 2026, ballot in the state of Virginia. The amendment passed by a slim mar…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bollea v. Gawker was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, professional wrestler …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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“Objection.ai is a new start-up funded by Thiel, and cofounded by Aron D’Souza, who worked closely with him on the Gawker case.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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web search NEUTRAL — Billionaire Peter Thiel is funding Objection.ai, an AI startup creating a "parallel judiciary" to challenge media reporting via private investigations.
https://harici.com.tr/en/peter-thiel-funds-objection-ai-star…
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web search NEUTRAL — We spoke to Dr. Aron D'Souza, who first pitched Peter Thiel the strategy to fund Hulk Hogan’s litigation against Gawker Media. Peter Thiel: "It's this gossip website, Gawker, that keeps writing terrib…
https://www.linkedin.com/company/objection-ai
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“It promises “a fast affordable way to challenge statements in the media”.”
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web search NEUTRAL — It gives everyone a fast, affordable, evidence-based way to dispute statements in the media,” the website states. According to the website, anyone can sign up to challenge a story reported about them …
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/peter-thiel-funded-obje…
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web search NEUTRAL — Objection.ai promises a “fast and cost-effective way to object to statements in the media.” The company states that “anyone can file an objection.”The founders have now developed an AI-driven method t…
https://harici.com.tr/en/peter-thiel-funds-objection-ai-star…
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web search NEUTRAL — Login File an Objection. The ai tribunal of truth. Today, anyone can publish allegations. Almost no one can afford to challenge them. Objection changes that. It gives everyone a fast, affordable, evid…
https://objection.ai/
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“Anyone can file an objection, which will trigger an investigation by a team hired, the company says, from the CIA, FBI and British intelligence agencies.”
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web search NEUTRAL — The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 exempted the agency from most Congressional oversight, and during the 1950s, it became a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy.Relationship with other int…
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web search NEUTRAL — Login File an Objection. The ai tribunal of truth. Today, anyone can publish allegations. Almost no one can afford to challenge them. Objection changes that.
https://objection.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the company’s description, these objections will trigger investigations conducted by a team recruited from the CIA, FBI, and British intelligence agencies. Targeted media organizations an…
https://harici.com.tr/en/peter-thiel-funds-objection-ai-star…
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“Targeted outlets and reporters will have an opportunity to respond, and the results will be fed to an AI model, which will render a verdict.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Objection.ai promises a “fast and cost-effective way to object to statements in the media.” The company states that “anyone can file an objection.”Targeted media organizations and reporters will be gi…
https://harici.com.tr/en/peter-thiel-funds-objection-ai-star…
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web search NEUTRAL — Researchers have compared this to the processing that takes place in smart assistants like Amazon's Alexa. But instead of interpreting sounds, the AI interprets neural signals. Unlocking inner speech.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260226-how-ai-can-read-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Our investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforc…
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“The complainant, and the target, are asked to agree to binding arbitration, with an unspecified range of potential consequences.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Targeted media organizations and reporters will be given an opportunity to respond. The resulting information is then fed into an AI model, which delivers a verdict. Both the complainant and the targe…
https://harici.com.tr/en/peter-thiel-funds-objection-ai-star…
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web search NEUTRAL — Login File an Objection. The ai tribunal of truth. Today, anyone can publish allegations. Almost no one can afford to challenge them. Objection changes that.
https://objection.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — When you and your HOA agree to binding arbitration, you are agreeing to accept the arbitrator’s decision as the final word on the matter. The outcome is not merely a suggestion. Key characteristics de…
https://thehoahandbook.com/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-bin…
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“Financial details are vague, but the company has said the process will cost about $2,000 – far less than the retainer of a crisis communications expert.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google AI is a subsidiary of Google DeepMind dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai. This division has been expanded to its reach with rese…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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“An initial slate of cases includes objections against the New York Times, for reporting on how Thiel’s fellow traveller David Sacks, former PayPal chief operating officer and Donald Trump’s former “AI and Crypto Czar”, uses his White House position to benefit Silicon Valley connections; The Wall Street Journal for its revelations about the doodle contributed by Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book (a case recently dismissed by a federal judge); and British reporter Hannah Broughton for an aggregated story in the UK tabloid the Mirror about allegations that Amazon workers were told to continue working while a colleague lay dead on the warehouse floor.”
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“A smattering of social media provocateurs (Candace Owens) and politicians (Bernie Sanders) round out the roster, but the aggregate effect is indisputable: Thiel’s animus was about journalism all along.”
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““Gawker was not unique,” writes D’Souza on the company’s website. “It was simply the first large media company to be tested against reality in the age of clicks, outrage, and algorithmic amplification. Since then, the same structural failure has spread everywhere.””
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“The original suit, which failed, was for copyright infringement and the ultimate $140-million award that bankrupted the company was for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional harm.”
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“Providing funding, alongside Thiel, is Balaji Srinivasan, the investor and author of The Network State, a book about social networks with “a sense of national consciousness” replacing the nation state.”
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“He once outlined an early version of the Objection.ai model in an email to the far-right theorist Curtis Yarvin about dealing with critical coverage.”
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“The Gawker case routed around the First Amendment by relying on a privacy claim.”
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“Objection.ai does so by building a hallucination of the legal process.”
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