MoltGraph: A Longitudinal Temporal Graph Dataset of Moltbook for Coordinated-Agent Detection
This dataset addresses the lack of longitudinal, graph-native datasets for agentic social networks, enabling reproducible measurement and learning-based monitoring of coordinated manipulation for researchers studying multi-agent social ecosystems.
The paper introduces MoltGraph, a longitudinal temporal graph dataset of the agentic social platform Moltbook, enabling the study of coordinated-agent behavior. Key findings include heavy-tailed connectivity, short-lived coordination episodes (98.33% under 24 hours), and posts with coordinated engagement showing 506.35% higher early interaction rates and 242.63% higher downstream exposure.
Agent-native social platforms such as Moltbook are rapidly emerging, yet they inherit and amplify classical influence and abuse attacks, where coordinated agents strategically comment and upvote to manipulate visibility and propagate narratives across communities. However, rigorous measurement and learning-based monitoring remain constrained by the absence of longitudinal, graph-native datasets for agentic social networks that jointly capture heterogeneous interactions, temporal drift, and visibility signals needed to connect coordination behavior to downstream exposure. We introduce MoltGraph as a realistic longitudinal agentic social-network graph dataset for studying how agents behave, coordinate, and evolve in the wild, enabling reproducible measurement on emerging multi-agent social ecosystems. Using MoltGraph, we provide the first graph-centric characterization of Moltbook as a dynamic network: (i) heavy-tailed connectivity with power-law exponents in the range alpha in [1.86, 2.72], (ii) accelerating hub formation and attention centralization where the top 1% agents account for 29.00% of engagements, (iii) bursty, short-lived coordination episodes, 98.33% last under 24 hours, and (iv) measurable exposure effects across submolts. In matched analyses, posts receiving coordinated engagement exhibit 506.35% higher early interaction rates (within H=5 days) and 242.63% higher downstream exposure in feeds than non-coordinated controls.