Elmo’s X account posted antisementary and racist posts after being hacked on Sunday, a spokesperson of manufacturers “Sesame Street” Said in a statement.
“Elmo’s X account was compromised by an unknown hacker, which posted hate messages including antisemtic and racist positions,” a spokesperson of the Sesame Workshop said, who is a non -profit organization behind “Sesame Street”.
The spokesman said that he was working to restore the complete control of the social media account, which has been verified and has more than 600,000 followers.
The posts consisted of slurs against comments about Jews and President Trump and Jeffrey EpsteinHumilized financer and guilty sex criminals who killed themselves in jail in 2019 as they faced allegations of federal sexual trafficking. Shortly after appearing on the stage, the post was removed on Sunday afternoon.
Epstein’s case is back in news after justice department and FBI A report released Saying that his review did not find any evidence of a long -standing “client list”, and that the safety video confirmed that no one entered the cell area before Epstein’s death. Following right-wing media data, the findings between some Trump supporters spent years after promoting a cover-up or conspiracy idea.
Elmo’s X account was published several days after the post team RavineElon Musk’s XAI Chatboat removed several posts on Musk’s X, in which Chatboat made antisemitic comments And praised Adolf Hitler. The company later released apologies.
Musk and X, social media platforms have been previously known as Twitter, Criticized for bounce Antisemitic and other vulgar language speeches on the site since taking ownership in October 2022. Andrew tet, Kanye West And some infamous new-Nazi figures-and in the name of free speech reduced the material moderation.
The Anti-Development League is also monitoring the increase in antisementic events in America Non -profit organization said Last year, it recorded 9,354 antisementic events across the country, which is the highest number since the monitoring of more than four decades ago. It marked a 5% increase in events since 2023 and an increase of 893% in the last decade.
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