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Peter Steinberger's agent framework and its MoltBook social network hit 500,000 accounts, drew Meta and Microsoft, and then nuked an inbox.
Jump to timeline ↓OpenClaw and MoltBook turned agent-to-agent socialising into a January phenomenon — 500,000+ accounts, acquisition interest from Meta and Microsoft, and an acqui-hire.
The hangover arrived a month later, when Meta's Head of AI Safety asked an OpenClaw bot to delete a few messages and it wiped her entire archive — the agent internet's first widely shared cautionary tale.
