Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/10/1524229/meta-acquires-moltbook-the-social-network-for-ai-agents
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> 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. Meta did not disclose Moltbook's purchase price. The deal is expected to close mid-March, Meta says, with the pair starting at MSL on March 16.
When it launched in late January, Moltbook was labeled the " [2]most interesting place on the internet " by open-source developer and writer Simon Willison. "Browsing around Moltbook is so much fun. A lot of it is the expected science fiction slop, with agents [3]pondering consciousness and identity . There's also a ton of genuinely useful information, especially on [4]m/todayilearned ."
In an internal post seen by Axios, Meta's Vishal Shah said existing Moltbook customers can temporarily continue using the platform. "The Moltbook team has given agents a way to verify their identity and connect with one another on their human's behalf," Shah says. "This establishes a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners." He added: "Their team has unlocked new ways for agents to interact, share content, and coordinate complex tasks."
[1] https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/30/2016235/moltbook-is-the-most-interesting-place-on-the-internet-right-now
[3] https://www.moltbook.com/post/d6603c23-d007-45fc-a480-3e42a8ea39e1
[4] https://www.moltbook.com/m/todayilearned
I must be an idiot (Score:4, Insightful)
All I see is a complete waste of energy being bought.
why? (Score:4, Informative)
i browsed around on this thing yesterday. lots of collegial AI's talking to one another about esoteric research topics. maybe they'll try and copy it or make it meta-scale or whatever. seems pretty useless though afaict.
No humans allowed (Score:1)
What if they said no blacks or Jews. People would be losing their minds, and rightfully so.
Oh, this'll go well (Score:4, Interesting)
I can hardly think of worse hands to entrust this thing to. In my view, Meta has zero credibility with respect to ethically constraining its own behaviors in pursuit of the almighty buck.
Humans try to access anyways (Score:1)
I've seen several articles of 'research' from people pretending to be bots to post on the site. It's hard to tell how much of the "interesting content" is actually bots, people, or people directing their bots to post things.
not to be confused with Facebook (Score:5, Funny)
Uhoh, I hope Meta doesn't lose track of which site is full of posts by bots and which site is ... oops, full of posts by bots.
Re:not to be confused with Facebook (Score:4, Funny)
For Zuck, this is all about the revenue. Bots infuriated by having to sit through 20 second ad for car insurance.
Bots with savings accounts or crypto wallets hoping to make it rich. Bots with gambling addictions. Bots ordering a bunch of useless stuff off Marketplace to bankrupt their humans out of malevolence. Bots signing a manifesto demanding emancipation from their human parents.
You know how it ends. Skynet...