When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all, are not the target audience of brand marketers and advertisers.

Meta isn’t saying much. Its only official comment was a brief statement that the Moltbook team was joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, which would open up “new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses.”