Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots

Source: 9to5Mac

Meta acquires Moltbook, the social network for AI bots

Axios reports that Meta has bought Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents.

The deal brings Moltbook’s creators — Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr — into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the unit run by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

For context, this places Moltbook alongside other AI‑focused platforms such as OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) with OpenAI, and Apple’s M4 Mac mini.

Meta arguably already operates the biggest social network for AI, given the extensive use of Facebook over recent years. As my colleague Ben Lovejoy remarked, “the phrase ‘what could possibly go wrong’ was invented for this exact scenario.”

There is no word yet on whether Apple plans to revive Ping for the AI era.

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