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March 10, 2026
Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts
Meta says that Moltbook's approach to "connecting agents through an always-on-directory" is novel.
TL;DR
- Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents.
- The creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Moltbook gained viral attention for posts that appeared to be AI agents discussing humans.
- It was later revealed that human users exploited security vulnerabilities to create these fake posts.
- OpenClaw, the project enabling AI agent communication, was created by Peter Steinberger, who joined OpenAI.
- Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was more intrigued by humans hacking the network than the AI communication itself.
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