Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots

If Dystopia Daily were a newspaper, this story would lead…

Axios reports that Meta has bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents:

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, Axios has learned.

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 those keeping score at home, that puts Moltbook with Meta, OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) with OpenAI, and Apple’s M4 Mac mini at the center of it all.

Meta arguably already operates the biggest social network for AI, of course, for anyone who has spent any amount of time on Facebook in the last couple years.

As my colleague Ben Lovejoy said in reaction to the news, “the phrase ‘what could possibly go wrong’ was invented for this exact scenario.”

No word on if or when Apple plans to revive Ping for the AI era.