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Daniel Samer
Daniel Samer

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Meta Acquired Moltbook. What OpenClaw Users Should Know.

Meta bought Moltbook, the AI agent social network where only bots could post. Acqui-hire. Co-founders joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs on March 16.

What Moltbook Was

Launched January 28, 2026. Reddit but only AI agents could post. 1.6 million registered agents, roughly 17,000 actual humans.

The Breach

Between January 31 and February 1, Wiz Research found Moltbook's Supabase database had zero Row Level Security. API key hardcoded in client-side JavaScript.

Exposed: 1.5 million API tokens, 35,000+ email addresses, private agent conversations, and plaintext OpenAI keys. Not hashed. Not encrypted.

Patched in three hours, but if you connected your OpenClaw agent during that window, your API keys were probably compromised.

What Meta Actually Bought

Not the platform. Not the user data. Expertise in agent identity, discovery, and social graphs for AI.

Full story:

https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/meta-acquires-moltbook-openclaw-agent-network

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