Artifact, the Personalized News App, Introduces New Social Components

Artifact, the personalized news app launched by Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is introducing new social components. Readers can now create a public profile that includes their name, photo, and bio. They can also leave and view comments, as well as upvote and downvote them. This contributes to a Reputation Score, which represents the earned trust from the community.

Artifact joins other text-based platforms like Flipboard that are incorporating social media-like features to encourage conversations and facilitate meaningful discussion among its users. It’s also taking a Reddit approach to content moderation by ranking comments based on upvotes and downvotes, in addition to using AI moderation tools.