An X account for the Sesame Avenue character Elmo has been focused by an unknown hacker who posted antisemitic and racist messages.
The profile is adopted by greater than 650,000 customers on the social community – and normally posts upbeat and motivational updates.
Sunday’s messages, which have since been deleted, referred to as for violence towards Jews, insulted Donald Trump, and referred to alleged information associated to Jeffrey Epstein.
In a press release, Sesame Workshop stated the X account has now been secured – and described the posts uploaded to Elmo’s web page as “disgusting”.
That is the newest controversy to befall Elon Musk’s platform in latest days.
Final week, X’s AI chatbot Grok additionally produced content material with antisemitic tropes, which had been later eliminated and denounced as “inappropriate”.
Musk bought the web site, previously generally known as Twitter, again in 2022 – with extremist content material growing towards a backdrop of much less moderation.
The Anti-Defamation League, a US organisation that fights antisemitism, stated: “It is appalling that Elmo’s official account, identified for spreading kindness, was hacked solely to unfold violent antisemitism.”
“Antisemitism on social media fosters the normalisation of anti-Jewish hate on-line and offline – and contributes to an more and more threatening atmosphere for Jewish folks in every single place.”
Elmo’s account has not posted because the hack.
