No More Doomscrolling: Sara Beykpour on Smarter News with Particle

Jul 11, 2025

Sara Beykpour, CEO of Particle and former Twitter executive, discusses revolutionizing news consumption through AI. She shares how Particle goes beyond traditional aggregators by creating comprehensive summaries that highlight key facts and source transparency. The concept of 'liquid content' is examined, transforming lengthy articles into concise formats. Beykpour also explains the importance of personalized news agents powered by AI, empowering users with more control over their media consumption while battling misinformation and bias.

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INSIGHT

Particle's True News Aggregation

Particle aggregates multiple news sources into a single comprehensive summary with key facts and primary quotes.
It also highlights original sources like tweets and trailers for a richer news experience.

INSIGHT

Social Media's News Limitations

Social media algorithms optimize for engagement, often promoting clickbait and misinformation.
This fosters filter bubbles, echo chambers, and a widespread mistrust of content authenticity.

ADVICE

AI Accuracy and Transparency

Use automated pipelines to check AI summaries against original sources to reduce hallucinations.
Address conflicting source reports by favoring recent updates and providing transparent history to users.

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Inside Particle’s mission to fix the way we consume headlines—with AI summaries, source transparency, and more.

This week on The Media Copilot, host Pete Pachal welcomes Sara Beykpour, CEO of Particle, an AI-powered news app that’s rethinking what it means to aggregate information in 2025.

Unlike traditional aggregators that simply pile stories into a feed, Particle uses artificial intelligence to assemble a comprehensive summary of any given topic—highlighting key facts, surfacing original sources like tweets or trailers, and analyzing bias across coverage. It’s curation with context, and it’s changing how people interact with the news.

Pete and Sara dig into:

🔹 What makes Particle different in a long line of aggregator apps

🔹 How “liquid content” turns a 30-minute article into an 8-minute podcast

🔹 The concept of personalized news agents powered by AI

🔹 Why AI is giving users more control than ever over how they consume media

Whether you’re in the trenches of journalism, building tools for content creators, or just trying to stay informed in a smarter way, this episode is packed with insight.

🎙 Guest: Sara Beykpour CEO of Particle | Follow on LinkedIn

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This episode of The Media CoPilot was produced by Pete Pachal, Executive Producer Michele Musso, and with video/audio editing by the Musso Media team. Produced by Musso Media. © 2025 Musso Media. All rights reserved.

Music: Favorite by Alexander Nakarada, licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License