Faye D'Souza's news app 'Beatroot' available for 'limited' downloads
The app promises fact-checked news that delivers information 'unemotionally'
Independent journalist Faye D’Souza has announced that her news app “Beatroot” is available for limited downloads on Google Play Store and iOS App Store.
Users can test out the app and write directly to D’Souza to give feedback on its useability.
She announced the news on her social media page. “There is a crisis of credibility Indian news is facing,” she said. “News is serious business. It is also unemotional. We stripped out everything that we felt did not fit into this description. And we worked on a solution that doesn’t work on algorithms, that doesn’t predict behaviour, that doesn’t like clever headlines, that doesn’t write misleading headlines, that doesn’t make you manipulate you emotionally to make you angry or scared to keep your attention. It doesn’t do scroll. All it does is provide you information,” she described the new news vehicle.
I have launched a news app- Beatroot News#news #fayedsouza #beatrootnews
— Faye DSouza (@fayedsouza) June 1, 2023
Download the app here: https://t.co/zjwF3ti0tg pic.twitter.com/Nbp2xe4ewE
The app is a curated, fact-checked news platform that “gives you everything you need to know unemotionally.” D’Souza also added that the news is written by human beings “that respect your intelligence and your dignity.”
D’Souza has been running a successful news dissemination page on Instagram. She announced that the app, named after the homophone “be true”, is in the works in February 2020.
The journalist stepped down as the Editor of Mirror Now in September 2019. She was the host of the show “Love, Laugh, Live” on the network’s English entertainment channel Romedy Now.
She also worked with Firework TV producing short-format online news capsules.
