Artifact was a personalized social news aggregator app that uses recommender systems to suggest articles.

Launched in January 2023 by Nokto, Inc.,[2] a company founded by co-founders of Instagram Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger,[3] the app is available for iOS and Android.

[7][8] With a team of seven employees in San Francisco, the app was free throughout its lifetime, with the founders explaining at the time that different business models - such as advertising or subscription fees - could be explored in the future.

[9] In January 2024, cofounder Kevin Systrom announced that the app would be shutting down after concluding that "the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.

[20][21] Similar to other social news websites like Reddit, reader accounts had profiles with reputation scores.