The official X account of Elmothe popular muppet star of the childrens show Sesame Streetis secure after it was taken over by a hacker on Sunday who made a series of antisemitic posts, demanded the release of the so-called Epstein files, and attacked President Donald Trump over his refusal to do so.
FILE PHOTO: The Sesame Workshop said Elmo's X account was taken over by a hacker on Sunday.
NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesIn a series of now-deleted posts, the Elmo account posted several antisemitic slurs and called for violence against Jewish people.
The hacked account also made a couple of profane posts attacking Trump, claiming he was a puppet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and he is in the Epstein files.
The posts were deleted on Sunday night, and a spokesperson for Sesame Street confirmed to Variety on Monday morning that the account "has since been secured."
No new posts have been made.
The Sesame Workshop said in a statement Sunday the Elmo X account was compromised today by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts.
647,783. That is the total number of followers the Elmo account had on X as of early Monday morning. This make Elmo the most followed Sesame Street character on X. The official Sesame Street X account has 1.86 million followers.
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The Elmo account hack comes just days after X was mired in another controversy involving antisemitic posts on the platform. Last week, Xs AI chatbot Grok made a series of antisemitic posts attacking Jewish people and praising Adolf Hitler. The chatbot claimed the platforms owner, Elon Musk, had built me this way from the start, and a MechaHitler mode was its default setting for dropping red pills. The posts were eventually deleted by xAI, Musks artificial intelligence firm that operates Grok, and the company said it had taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. Groks antisemitic outburst came a few days after Musk, who has complained about other AI platform being too woke, announced an update to the chatbot. After the controversy, xAI appeared to make some adjustments to the system prompts that guide Groks responses, removing recently added guidance that directed the chatbot to post responses that dont shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.
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