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\n\tFor many journalists, blowback is just part of the business.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe irate call to the editor or publisher, often expressed through the promise of litigation. The online pile-on, often expressed through personal invective. Occasionally, the threat of violence, often expressed through all-caps derangement.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt\u2019s rare to encounter a novel variant. But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. \u201cSomeone has filed an objection against something you wrote,\u201d explained Austin Livingston, pointing me to a web page where Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler, a film financier and self-styled ethical investor, had paid a new tech startup \u2014 fittingly called Objection \u2014 to assess the legitimacy of a skeptical article I\u2019d published about him and his business in The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> five years earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tLivingston, a young staffer who describes his job on LinkedIn as, simply, \u201ccreating shareholder value,\u201d noted that an AI tribunal would attempt to \u201cadjudicate a determination of truth,\u201d and that the announced outcome \u201cwill also affect your Honor Index score, a measure of the veracity of your published work.\u201d He went on, adding, \u201cYou can argue your side by uploading your evidence and suggesting your interpretation of the allegation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI perused the web page, designated \u201cSackler v Baum (2026).\u201d It featured a countdown clock ticking toward an apparent verdict. Then I read up on the company, which is backed by the prominent right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who waged a legal war against Gawker Media after it published coverage about his business interests and personal life which upset him. The effort led to the outlet\u2019s demise. At first glance, Objection seemed to be a kangaroo court catering to rich and infamous plaintiffs, the latest service in the lucrative sector of digital reputation management.<\/p>\n

\n\tI replied to Livingston, explaining I\u2019d consulted with my editors and that The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> believes the article stands on its own. However, I was interested in writing about Objection. Two weeks later, I found myself in a revealing and at times baffling exchange with the Oxford-educated brain trust behind the firm about the nature of truth, trust, transparency and power.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tObjection\u2019s Founder and CEO is Aron D\u2019Souza, an Australian entrepreneur and provocateur best known as the mastermind behind Thiel\u2019s litigation strategy against Gawker, which involved a patient, extensive search for the ideal proxy plaintiff to sink the online news outlet. The campaign, quietly funded by the tech investor, culminated in Hulk Hogan\u2019s successful invasion-of-privacy suit and ultimately helped force Gawker into bankruptcy. Thiel\u2019s involvement, with D\u2019Souza as the intermediary to Hogan attorney Charles Harder, was exposed after the verdict.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore recently, Thiel has backed D\u2019Souza\u2019s company Enhanced Games \u2014 dubbed the \u201csteroid Olympics\u201d \u2014 which offers athletes financial incentives to compete under rules that allow performance-enhancing drugs. The company, which also counts Donald Trump Jr. as a key investor, went public in early May.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo discuss Objection, D\u2019Souza and I convened for a video call along with the company\u2019s chief technology officer, Kyle Grant-Talbot. They played rugby together at Oxford. D\u2019Souza, in the signature quarter-zip of the startup tribesmen, exuded the confidence and finesse of someone long adept at raising money. Grant-Talbot, an Englishman whose CV includes engineering stints at NASA and SpaceX, struck me as his more grounded counterpart.<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza, who\u2019s long had the notion of rating news outlets, started Objection after an extended discussion about the concept with the prominent Silicon Valley investor-entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan. (He now has stakes in both Objection and Enhanced Games.) \u201cThe Gawker litigation taught me that courts are too slow and they\u2019re too expensive,\u201d says D\u2019Souza. \u201cIn 2016, after we won the Gawker verdict and Gawker went bankrupt, I considered the idea of buying Gawker and turning it into a news rating website.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA decade later, he explains, \u201cWe\u2019re the first people to sell adjudication as a service,\u201d comparing his venture to well-respected legal bodies like JAMS, SIAC and the International Chamber of Commerce, which specialize in alternative dispute resolution outside traditional judicial systems. \u201cThey\u2019re private arbitration courts that are very trusted methods of truth-seeking.\u201d Of course, these are consensual private forums. Objection issues public verdicts based on investigations paid for by one party, which may be negatively impacted by the refusal of the other side to participate in its process.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza grew up in Melbourne, the youngest of three brothers and son of a research scientist. His Ph.D. is in intellectual property law. Now splitting his time between London and New York, he\u2019s the type of inveterate founder who\u2019s constantly ginning up business plans. They can be boring (a tech infrastructure firm), niche (a chief of staff association) or whimsical (a notion to fund an Australian poet laureate).<\/p>\n

\n\tHis ideas have been nurtured within a close and influential cohort. \u201cThere\u2019s this group of us, 15, 20 of us, that are gay entrepreneurs, and we\u2019ve all holidayed together for years,\u201d D\u2019Souza told The<\/em> Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> in February. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinarily tight community that has propelled me, and all of us together, to the heights of capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo him, it\u2019s unsurprising that these paradigm-shifting overachievers are all gay, citing the landmark 1973 book The Best Little Boy in the World<\/em>, about how the pursuit of ambition and excellence can help closeted young men deflect from their sexuality. D\u2019Souza has observed that his friends are \u201cthe best little boys in the world. They all went to the fanciest universities and won all the prizes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThese men include Thiel, the German biotech billionaire Christian Angermayer and OpenAI chief Sam Altman \u2014 who in 2018 described D\u2019Souza to a reporter as \u201cruthlessly ambitious\u201d and \u201cobsessed with status and power.\u201d In D\u2019Souza\u2019s interview with the Australian newspaper, he explained why: \u201cIt\u2019s only the top 1 percent who matter. These are the people who are going to be the value creators\u201d when, in his view, AI soon completely transforms just about every aspect of economic life.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tGrant-Talbot outlined several key categories of Objection clients. \u201cThe first are people that have been the subject of lawfare, especially in the U.S.,\u201d he explains. \u201cThey believe, and we don\u2019t judge, that they\u2019ve been unfairly targeted by the judiciary and either have done time in jail because they\u2019ve had to take a plea deal or they\u2019re on a house arrest or they\u2019re in litigation and they believe that\u2019s unfounded and they want to exonerate themselves.\u201d Some of these people \u201cbelieve that the media coverage actually instigated the lawfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second group, according to Grant-Talbot, are famous people, mainly influencers, \u201cwhose reputation is their brand,\u201d and who believe a viral story has led to lost income from licensing deals and similar revenue streams. The third, \u201cprobably my favorite,\u201d are those who \u201cjust have a really, really annoying article that\u2019s written about them in a local outlet that just is constantly in the back of their\u00a0mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, of course, there are billionaires and their heirs. D\u2019Souza believes that \u201cmany journalists are more powerful than billionaires,\u201d explaining, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many billionaires and CEOs have called me in absolute tears about their lives being destroyed by one article.\u201d He notes that most of them \u201chave no media skill whatsoever\u201d and have \u201cnever sought the spotlight,\u201d so he contends that \u201cthere\u2019s a massive power asymmetry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo D\u2019Souza, such \u201cquiet, boring,\u201d super-rich clients in fact aren\u2019t resourced enough \u2014 which is why they need Objection. \u201cSomeone who is our ideal customer, it\u2019s not Elon [Musk], who has hundreds of millions of combined social media followers, and has the distribution apparatus itself,\u201d referring to his ownership of the networking platform X. \u201cIt\u2019s not Peter Thiel, who\u2019s sophisticated and has high distribution. It\u2019s someone like Michael [Sackler], who has low distribution but high wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tMy profile of Sackler, it turns out, was tthe first case to be brought before Objection\u2019s tribunal, although the company told me there are now dozens in its virtual docket. \u201cYou\u2019re Exhibit A,\u201d D\u2019Souza said, observing that the verdict on my work was part of the company\u2019s soft launch: \u201cBuilding software is hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe article I published in April 2021, co-reported with Alex Ritman, was given the online headline \u201cFrom Opioid Crisis to Hollywood: Heir to Purdue Pharma Undergoes \u2018Identity Makeover.\u2019 \u201d It explained that Sackler, the film producer turned venture capitalist, \u201chas refashioned himself as a self-styled ethical investor, but some see an attempt to escape accountability for his family\u2019s role in the OxyContin scourge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSackler spoke to THR<\/em>, including about how he viewed himself in relation to his family and fortune. \u201cI\u2019ve not been a part of the business,\u201d he said, referring to Purdue, which went bankrupt after settling a slew of claims that it had exacerbated OxyContin\u2019s widespread abuse. \u201cIt\u2019s something that is a historical legacy, it\u2019s nothing to do with me,\u201d he said, explaining that he was still a minor when claims against the company first materialized. (As an adult, records show, he was involved in his family\u2019s crisis-management efforts.) \u201cI\u2019m very conscious that how I choose to use my own money is up to me, and I choose to use it in this way\u201d \u2014 on his films and VC investing, including AI-related projects \u2014 \u201cwhich I think is a force for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe story also included commentary from critics. A philosophy professor who\u2019d written a book on inherited wealth observed that \u201cit\u2019s not enough to say you\u2019re not the perpetrator. The moral and ethical presumption is that you surrender the fruits if you can. You don\u2019t get credit for doing something else,\u201d adding, \u201cIf you\u2019re not giving the money back to the victims, you\u2019re just changing the subject.\u201d The director of an inequality think tank, who happened to himself be an inheritor of dynastic capital, was blunt: \u201cMichael is seeking an identity makeover with this fund. It comes from shame.\u201d He continued, \u201cPrivilege is a disconnection drug. It keeps you from seeing a chain of responsibility. It keeps you from feeling pain and suffering. You reconstruct self-narrative. The alternative is facing the suffering, which is huge. You have to deflect onto some other cause that becomes your pet cause instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, Sackler offered no response to these contentions. (As a general matter, D\u2019Souza questions the common journalistic practice of quoting \u201cexperts\u201d as part of coverage.) After the article was published, Sackler didn\u2019t quibble with its facts, although he did attempt to assert that his interview had been off the record \u2014 it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tObjection\u2019s framing is prosecutorial and binary, asking whether it\u2019s true or false that THR<\/em> claimed Sackler had used his firm as an \u201cidentity makeover\u201d to deflect from his family\u2019s responsibility for the opioid crisis. Yet the article was an inquiry, not a judgment. The reader makes their determination of Sackler\u2019s motivations and obligations, as well as of the story\u2019s credibility. As the old Fox News slogan had it, \u201cWe report, you decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I point this out, Grant-Talbot, ever genial, responds, \u201cIt\u2019s great feedback,\u201d adding, \u201cI\u2019m not a journalist, I\u2019m a technologist.\u201d By the time we spoke, Objection had removed its ominous countdown clock from my virtual trial as the company tinkered with its algorithms. \u201cThe AI-based reasoning models are easy in comparison to adjudication,\u201d D\u2019Souza said, perhaps already aware that his company might be accused, at least in its beta phase, of outputting slop justice. \u201cWhat I would say is our goal isn\u2019t perfection. Our goal is to be as good as the [human] court process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tObjection assigns a human investigator \u2014 at the $2,000 price tier, a college graduate; for $10,000, a former CIA or FBI agent \u2014 to gather evidence, which is displayed as exhibits. In my case, just about all of it appeared to be extraneous documentation, like incorporation paperwork for Sackler\u2019s firm, which seemed irrelevant to the matter at hand. Then it prompts a group of AI models (including the name-brand ones such as Claude, ChatGPT and Grok) to act as its jury, analyzing the evidence. D\u2019Souza promises that conclusions will be transparent: \u201cWe expose all the math that underpins what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce Objection issues an adjudication, satisfied clients can pay an extra fee to promote the finding \u201cso it engages with the disinformation as it spreads through social media,\u201d D\u2019Souza says. \u201cWhat I know from the Gawker litigation, having dealt with not just Hulk Hogan but dozens of other parties who felt like they were aggrieved by the media, is that they actually don\u2019t want a financial remedy. What they want is a moral victory. Most of them just want a PDF that they can send to their investors and their family which says, \u2018I did not go to Epstein Island.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza positions Objection as a good-faith effort to reform journalism. For him, it\u2019s a new watchdog out to patrol those other watchdogs that he believes have lost their way. Yet, notably, he wouldn\u2019t name a single example of accountability-oriented reporting of which he does approve, saying he has concerns about the \u201centire enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong other criticisms, D\u2019Souza dismisses the value of anonymous sources, believing they are discrediting, no matter the justification. Objection dings journalists who utilize them under almost all circumstances, except some reporting involving minors and national security. Yet he\u2019s OK with Objection clients secretly funding adjudications, as Thiel did with Gawker. He notes that \u201cthere\u2019s a risk of retribution\u201d for his platform\u2019s customers, before citing the Streisand effect, a media phenomenon in which attempts to suppress or censor information can unintentionally draw far more public attention to it. (This is where I\u2019ll note that Sackler, who either didn\u2019t think or care to cloak his identity when filing his \u201cobjection,\u201d didn\u2019t respond to my inquiry for this coverage.)<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza appreciates journalists\u2019 newsgathering ability to build an \u201cempathetic connection very quickly and then draw useful information out of their sources,\u201d but is suspicious of the synthesizing work done to produce stories. He\u2019d prefer raw transcripts to be made available in a \u201cpublic data room.\u201d It\u2019s a desire complicated by, among other factors, the reality that interviewees often make defamatory statements in unedited conversation, which outlets can be legally liable for publishing.<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza is concerned about what he views as the affliction of journalism on the powerful. (\u201cI\u2019ll accept that I\u2019m powerful-adjacent,\u201d he told TechCrunch in April.) He describes texting with Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, to commiserate about recent damning coverage of the OpenAI chief, co-reported by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker<\/em>. They see a tie between its publication and attempted violence at Altman\u2019s home and office in the immediate days afterward. \u201cNow, there are a lot of factors at play there, but Ronan\u2019s article was such a huge thing that it\u2019s hard to disconnect the two.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of my final questions for D\u2019Souza \u2014 who told me he\u2019d been in a slew of talks with media owners about his venture (\u201cI\u2019m coming to New York next week to meet all the big guys\u201d) \u2014 was whether he intended to file an objection on his platform to the story you are now reading. \u201cI have to see the article when it comes out and then determine it,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter we spoke, I awaited my verdict before the Objection tribunal in the Sackler case. None arrived. Eventually, the landing page was taken offline. I asked D\u2019Souza about it. He explained that Objection would \u201chold off publishing any adjudications\u201d until \u201ca new major strategic partnership\u201d was announced.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen the whole site went dark, replaced by a splash page reading: \u201cDue to feedback we\u2019re rebuilding for an epistemic and primary sourced future. Stay tuned for updates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza seems to simultaneously fear, jeer and revere the journalistic role. It\u2019s why he\u2019s drawn, in his own way, to influencing it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI always say when I talk to journalists, \u2018I\u2019m a philosopher,\u2019 \u201d he told me amid a broader riff about AI\u2019s transformation of modern life. \u201cWhat is the special place of being human? I think the very last job that humans are going to have is the first question in philosophy, which is epistemology: the nature of truth and distinguishing between truth and fiction. It\u2019s a very human skill, and that adjudicative function is extremely hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tD\u2019Souza continued, \u201cUltimately, what\u2019s the last job? It won\u2019t be knowledge work. It won\u2019t be physical work. It will be interfacing between the physical and the digital worlds, and right now that frontier is journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThis story appeared in the June 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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