Elmo’s X Account Hacked To Publish Racist And Antisemetic Posts

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In lawsuit it wasn’t obvious, no, that’s not nan existent Elmo that posted racist and antisemetic posts connected Elon Musk’s X. Someone had hacked into nan Sesame Street character’s X account.

On Sunday, Elmo’s charismatic relationship published respective abusive posts, since removed. It’s not clear really nan relationship was compromised, but nan nonprofit Sesame Workshop said it was “working to reconstruct afloat power of nan account.”

The relationship besides called connected nan Trump management to merchandise files related to nan Jeffrey Epstein investigation, which President Trump has sought to downplay. 

At nan clip of writing, Elmo’s hacked X relationship still links to a Telegram channel, which successful an earlier station referenced what seemed to beryllium a crypto scam.

It’s nan latest high-profile relationship to person been hacked since Musk’s takeover of nan site, formerly Twitter, successful 2022, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, OpenAI, and Donald Trump Jr.

Musk’s AI institution xAI apologized last week aft its Grok chatbot posted antisemetic memes and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. Musk himself performed a Nazi salute astatine Trump’s inauguration.

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