Artifact is available across most English-speaking\u00a0App Stores<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/11\/artifact-the-news-aggregator-from-instagrams-co-founders-adds-a-social-discussions-feature\/<\/a><\/br> Artifact<\/a>, the recently launched personalized news app<\/a> from Instagram\u2019s founders, is today launching a key new feature: a social discussions component. Previously in private testing, the feature introduces a way for users to comment and engage in conversations around news articles they\u2019re reading on the service. With today\u2019s update, all Artifact users will now see comments on articles, the company says.<\/p>\n To leave a comment of your own, Artifact users will have to first create a profile on the service \u2014 a relatively simple process that requires you to add and verify your phone number. This initial step will help to mitigate spam, the company notes.<\/p>\n These display names are not unique, which means no one has to fight over their name as they did on Instagram. While Artifact will encourage people to use their full names, it will allow pseudonyms.<\/p>\n The feature\u2019s addition makes Artifact more of a social network around news, rather than just the personalized news reading experience it offered at launch. It also makes Artifact more competitive with other places where people share news and information, including larger platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and even Twitter. Already, Artifact had offered a way to see which articles were popular in your own personal network, though without identifying the users who were reading them, as Twitter does through its Twitter Blue subscription feature \u201cTop Articles.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, entering into more of a social networking space raises a number of potential pitfalls for any company, as it could invite bad actors who engage in harassment, abuse, or spam, among other things.<\/p>\n Artifact says it will address moderation in a couple of ways. For starters, it will give each new profile a \u201creputation score\u201d that\u2019s based on community upvotes and downvotes on users\u2019 comments. This is similar to Reddit\u2019s voting mechanism, or even Twitter\u2019s Community Notes fact-checking feature, but with the addition of an actual, visible score that\u2019s displayed to all users.<\/p>\n The app will show a user\u2019s reputation score \u2014 a numerical figure\u2013 next to every commenter\u2019s display name and on each community member\u2019s profile, the company explains. What\u2019s more, this score will also play a role in determining how comments are ranked. That is, Artifact will use an algorithm that weights the user\u2019s reputation, the score of the particular comment, and a variety of other signals.<\/p>\n In addition, Artifact says it will use AI models to detect problematic content. This flagged content will then be reviewed for compliance with Artifact\u2019s community guidelines and Terms of Service. If it doesn\u2019t meet those guidelines, it will be removed. The company said it will also ban profiles \u201cif necessary\u201d \u2014 that is, in the most extreme violations of its policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over time, this experience may evolve as Artifact learns more about what\u2019s most effective.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re starting off simple here and will learn based on our experience in the first few weeks what works best,\u201d notes Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom, in an email. \u201cMy belief is that one of the most interesting things to do around news and written content is to discuss it with others \u2013 this feature is the first step in a direction that will make Artifact more social and bring life to a community around news.\u201d<\/p>\n Artifact first launched in January as something akin to a \u201cTikTok for news,\u201d or rather a U.S.-based alternative to other personalized news aggregators like ByteDance\u2019s Toutiao in China or Japan\u2019s SmartNews. The app combines a variety of trusted sources into one interface, where your engagement and reading behaviors inform recommendation algorithms<\/a> that help you discover the news you\u2019re most interested in. However, unlike social media experiences, users won\u2019t necessarily become stuck in \u201cfilter bubbles\u201d because the app offers a grouping of headlines from disparate sources across any topic as you dive in to read. Plus, you can browse the top stories in the app outside of your \u201cFor You\u201d page recommendations through its news verticals.<\/p>\n For the time being, the app is free to use during early-stage development. It may eventually choose to monetize through revenue shares with publishers, though nothing yet has been decided. Since becoming broadly available to the public in late February, Artifact has seen nearly 200,000 installs, according to data from app intelligence firm data.ai.<\/p>\n Artifact is available across most English-speaking\u00a0App Stores<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nArtifact, the news aggregator from Instagram\u2019s co-founders, adds a social discussions feature<\/br>
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