The Sesame Street Muppet Elmo's official X account was hacked, leading to inappropriate and hateful posts that included anti-Semitic rhetoric and graphic content. These posts were active for a brief period, allowing the harmful messages to spread quickly across social media. Among the offensive content were derogatory remarks involving public figures. After the breach, the account's control was restored, but no statement or explanation from the Elmo or Sesame Street accounts was made public regarding the incident at that time.
The official X account for beloved Sesame Street Muppet Elmo was hacked on Sunday, resulting in a series of graphic and racist posts before control was restored.
Profane tweets appeared on Elmo's public timeline, including anti-Semitic hate messages and derogatory references to President Donald Trump.
The hacked messages were live for less than half an hour, allowing for rapid screenshot sharing across the platform.
Neither the @Elmo account nor the @SesameStreet account had issued a statement regarding the hack at the time of reporting.
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