In case it wasn’t apparent, no, that’s not the actual Elmo that posted racist and antisemetic posts on Elon Musk’s X. Somebody had hacked into the Sesame Road character’s X account.
On Sunday, Elmo’s official account revealed a number of abusive posts, since eliminated. It’s not clear how the account was compromised, however the nonprofit Sesame Workshop said it was “working to revive full management of the account.”
The account additionally known as on the Trump administration to launch recordsdata associated to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, which President Trump has sought to downplay.
On the time of writing, Elmo’s hacked X account nonetheless hyperlinks to a Telegram channel, which in an earlier put up referenced what appeared to be a crypto rip-off.
It’s the most recent high-profile account to have been hacked since Musk’s takeover of the site, previously Twitter, in 2022, together with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, OpenAI, and Donald Trump Jr.
Musk’s AI firm xAI apologized last week after its Grok chatbot posted antisemetic memes and expressed assist for Adolf Hitler. Musk himself performed a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration.
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