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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/10/2026 10:50 EDT

Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’

Do you remember the name? Moltbook, the vibe-coded platform, famous for an unsecured database that let humans impersonate AI agents, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Moltbook was, in many ways, a product of chaos. Its code was written almost entirely by an AI assistant. Its security was so porous that anyone with basic technical knowledge […]
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