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They were all released without bail. Over the Trump admin’s objections.

A look at the first "case" brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.

I remember speaking to someone who, maybe a decade ago, worked at a ride share app company.
They left shortly after a meeting in which the company was looking at ways to slow cities from investing in their public transport.
On its face a business or technology might not be objectionable, but there's an inevitability to the direction that investment demands.

Biden DOJ targeted parents at school board meetings despite FBI, sheriffs' objections, memos show (Nicholas Ballasy/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/afl
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p87#a260615p87

One day, our children's objection to authority will serve them well.

Peter Thiel-backed Objection, initially an AI "tribunal" assessing reporters' articles, rebrands as The Primary to rank journalists "on the rigor" of their work (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model
Rebranded as The Primary, the service ranks media outlets and reporters. Its LLM-based methodology has given The New York Times' A.I. beat journalists among the lowest scores.

Frequent readers know that I often think about LLM-“AI”,
and that I think, um, poorly of it.
Most of my objections are systemic in nature, relating to climate, resources, extractive capitalism, job displacement, tool of the oppressor
-- you know what I mean.
But I can see how one could get a similar kind of joy to successfully guiding a deeply flawed program with a conversational interface, until it produced a program sort of like what one had in mind...
So I see …

Oh look, a new Thiel project dropped, I’m sure it’s gonna benefit humanity again
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/02/a-new-startup-lets-rich-people-use-ai-to-target-journalists/

A New Startup Lets Rich People Use AI to Target Journalists
Objection is a software platform that uses an AI ‘jury’ to decide whether journalists’ stories are truthful - and prices start at just $2,000. Harriet Williamson explains.

Trump privately raises objection to Senate housing bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/trump-senate-housing-bill-00905026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p88#a260504p88