Sesame Avenue's Elmo account hacked with offensive antisemitic posts

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Elmo from "Sesame Street" shocked social media customers after the character’s X account was hacked on Sunday.

The Sesame Avenue character, whose account has over 640,000 followers, started posting a number of provocative and offensive posts, in accordance with a picture obtained by Fox Information Digital.

"Kill all Jews," one put up learn.

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The Elmo X account posted a number of offensive messages in now-deleted tweets. (Screenshot/X)

"RELEASE THE FILES @realDonaldTrump CHILD F---ER," one other put up learn, in what seemed to be a reference to the Jeffrey Epstein paperwork.

The most recent put up learn, "Elmo says ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE. F---JEWS. DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD AND NEED TO BE EXTERMINATED."

The account additionally replied to a number of customers with related language. All posts and replies have been later deleted.

In an announcement to Fox News Digital, a Sesame Workshop spokesperson confirmed, "Elmo’s X account was compromised right now by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, together with antisemitic and racist posts. We're working to revive full management of the account."

Earlier than the posts have been deleted, a number of X customers from each side of the political aisle poked enjoyable on the character’s account containing grownup language.

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"I’m ceaselessly scarred … by @elmo. Phrases I by no means anticipated to utter," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote.

HuffPost deputy editor Philip Lewis remarked, "I assumed all of us agreed @elmo is off limits."

"See what occurs once you defund PBS @elmo," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., wrote.

Washington Reporter editor-in-chief Matthew Foldi joked , "Elmo would win not less than 10% in a nationwide Democratic major based mostly on these tweets alone."

Sesame Avenue has come below the highlight in current months as Republicans have pushed for efforts to defund PBS . President Donald Trump additionally signed an government order trying to drag federal funding from PBS in Could.

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Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas could be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.