The institutional threat Objection.ai poses is not to any single story — it is to the infrastructure that makes whistleblower-dependent reporting viable at all. When media ethics critics warn the model primarily empowers wealthy individuals and corporations, the concern is not hypothetical: the platform's methodology privileges official documents and penalizes the very sources that official documents are designed to suppress. A reporter covering corporate fraud, government misconduct, or financial crime depends structurally on people who cannot go on record. The Honor Index converts that structural dependency into a published liability…