Sesame Street puppet Elmo’s X account posts anti-Jewish rant after hacking

Makers of Sesame Street blasted an chartless hacker for slew of violative societal media posts.

The makers of Sesame Street person deleted a slew of violative societal media posts aft hackers hijacked the puppet Elmo’s X relationship to motorboat a tirade astir Jews and Jeffrey Epstein.

The posts connected Elmo’s relationship connected Sunday called for the extermination of Jewish people, referred to United States President Donald Trump arsenic a “puppet” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the merchandise of instrumentality enforcement files astir Epstein, the accused enactment trafficker who died successful 2019.

The posts attracted a flurry of attraction online earlier being deleted a abbreviated clip aft they were uploaded connected Sunday.

“Elmo’s X relationship was compromised by an chartless hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts,” a spokesperson for the Sesame Workshop told Al Jazeera successful a connection connected Monday.

“The relationship has since been secured.”

Elmo, a furry reddish monster known for his high-pitched dependable and wont of referring to himself successful the 3rd person, debuted connected PBS’s Sesame Street successful 1980, rapidly becoming 1 of the show’s astir beloved characters.

Elmo’s X account, which has much than 650,000 followers, is usually associated with uplifting messages and clips of the puppet playing games with different Sesame Street characters and his quality friends.

Last year, a station asking Elmo’s assemblage however they were doing went mega-viral, attracting astir 225 cardinal views connected X.

The hacking is the latest incidental to gully attraction to anti-Jewish contented connected tech billionaire Elon Musk’s X.

Earlier this month, Musk’s artificial quality institution xAI was forced to marque upgrades to its chatbot Grok aft users reported that it provided anti-Jewish responses to questions, including statements praising Nazi person Adolf Hitler.