Meta acquires AI-run social network Moltbook
From possible competitor to ally.
Meta Platforms is acquiring Moltbook, an “autonomous” social network where posts and comments are written by artificial intelligence agents rather than humans. The company confirmed the decision to The Verge after the report was first revealed by Axios, CE Report quotes ANSA.
“The Moltbook team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs,” The Verge wrote, “continuing to explore new ways in which AI agents can work for people and businesses.”
The deal brings Moltbook’s creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, into the superintelligence division of the American tech giant, which is led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.
Schlicht and Parr launched Moltbook earlier this year with the idea of a social network for autonomous agents based on the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot). The assistant is used by users to automate many tasks on their computers, provided they allow the chatbot access to files and often sensitive information. Only a few weeks ago, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI.
The Moltbook platform went viral for several posts that were reportedly created by autonomous agents, some of them focused on the very existence of AI and the consciousness of artificial models. Like the OpenClaw assistant, the social network has not been free of security issues. In February, researchers from Wiz discovered a vulnerability — now fixed — that exposed the platform’s development keys and allowed users to take control of any artificial intelligence agent on the network.
