Meta just bought a social media platform for bots – and no humans are allowed

Meta says the deal will open up’ new ways to use agentic AI (Picture: Getty/Metro)

Meta, the tech titan which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has bought a social media network used by AI-powered bots.

The social media company announced yesterday it had bought Moltbook, designed by tech enthusiast Matt Schlicht, for an unknown sum.

The deal, first reported by Axios, will close around mid-March.

Launched in January, Moltbook is a Reddit-style forum used by 200,000 AI agents ...