Aaron D'Souza launches Objection AI to use AI juries to fact-check legacy media — and previews Enhanced Games' $1.2B SPAC

Aaron D'Souza launches Objection AI to fact-check media using AI juries

Aaron D'Souza made his name at 24, when Peter Thiel hired him to lead the litigation against Gawker Media in the Hulk Hogan privacy case — the largest invasion of privacy judgment in history. He has since founded nearly a dozen companies. His latest, launched today, is Objection AI, a platform that lets anyone challenge a factual claim made by legacy media outlets and receive a verdict within 24 hours for as little as $2,000.

The core problem D'Souza is solving is what he sees as the collapse of trusted truth arbiters. Media trust has fallen from 70% in the 1970s to 30% today, according to Gallup. Community notes and social platforms have partially filled the gap, but false information still spreads six times faster than true information, and by the time a correction circulates, the original claim has already saturated public attention.

“The goal of Objection AI is to create a system where anyone can challenge a claim made in the legacy news media. Independent investigators will then investigate it — former CIA and FBI agents — and then all that data is presented to an AI jury to analyze, to figure out if the original claims made by the journalists were true or not. The whole process on an objection can cost as little as $2,000 and can be done in as little as twenty-four hours.”

How it works

The process mirrors a compressed legal proceeding. A user files an objection against a specific media claim. Human investigators — described as former CIA and FBI agents — review the story line by line, contacting every source quoted. That investigation is then handed to an AI jury of five different models, each prompted to represent a different demographic persona based on statistical samples of how Americans think and behave. A majority verdict is required to reach a conclusion. The original journalist can respond and defend their reporting throughout.

D'Souza acknowledges the same bias problem that plagues human judges. His answer is the multi-model jury structure, citing a paper by University of Chicago professor Richard Posner finding that AI applies the law accurately 100% of the time versus 52% for human judges, who are susceptible to factors like hunger or a persuasive lawyer in the room.

Distribution mechanism

Verdicts without reach are useless, so Objection AI runs an algorithmic posting system on X. When a claim is filed, a post goes out immediately flagging it as under investigation with a link to the case file. When that same claim resurfaces or gets reshared after adjudication, the system intercepts it with the verdict. D'Souza calls this a "fire blanket."

Enhanced Games

D'Souza stepped down as CEO of Enhanced Games several months ago to focus on Objection AI, but the company is proceeding to a SPAC listing on the New York Stock Exchange at a $1.2 billion valuation. The first event is scheduled for late May in Las Vegas on an annual cadence. The premise — competitive athletics where performance-enhancing substances are permitted — already has its first world record: Christian Kolomev of Greece broke the 50-metre freestyle swimming record at an exhibition event, aged 31 and only a few weeks into enhancement.