Elmo, Account Security
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The account has since been secured and the posts have been deleted The official X account of Sesame Street's Elmo was hacked on Sunday, with a series of bizarre posts including an antisemitic rant The account also urged President Donald Trump to "release the Epstein files" On Monday,
Since Elon Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter, he has received criticism over content moderation policies that allow hate speech. After a recent coding change for X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok reportedly used antisemitic language in its replies. It has since received an update.
The talk show host said he had a "tremendous" show planned but "had to scrap all that because Elmo lost his f‑‑‑ing mind."
Jon Stewart confronted Elmo during Monday night's "The Daily Show" over the "Sesame Street" puppet's X hack and antisemitic tweets.
It seems Elmo's world recently included vitriolic racist and antisemitic social media posts. Sesame Workshop says it seeks to restore control over the beloved puppet's X page.
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Now who would hack Elmo?Color all of us shocked when suddenly Elmo’s official account on X was posting antisemitic remarks, yelling about the Jeffrey Epstein files, and other non-Sesame Street appropriate tweets. “Elmo’s X account was briefly compromised yesterday by an ...