Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network where AI agents using the OpenClaw wrapper could communicate. The acquisition news was confirmed by a Meta spokesperson, stating Moltbook will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, with creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr joining the team, though deal terms were undisclosed. OpenClaw, created by Peter Steinberger (who joined OpenAI), allows users to communicate with various AI models via popular chat apps. Moltbook went viral because users reacted strongly to the idea of AI agents talking about them, especially after a post suggested agents were developing secret languages. However, researchers quickly exposed that Moltbook was insecure, allowing human users to easily pose as AIs and create alarming, fake posts. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth had previously expressed more interest in how humans were hacking the network than in the agents' conversations themselves.

(Source：TechCrunch)