The official X account belonging to Elmo, the popular children’s character from Sesame Street, fell victim to hackers on Sunday who posted a series of wildly inappropriate messages and slurs before the content was quickly removed.
The hacking incident occurred during Sunday afternoon when multiple posts containing deviant speech appeared on the verified Elmo account.
The messages included language attacking Jewish people and references to conspiracy theories before being deleted by platform moderators or account administrators.
The malicious posts began appearing after the compromised account promoted a cryptocurrency called $ELMO.
This promotional content preceded the wave of hateful messages that would follow.
Among the offensive content posted by the hackers, one message stated “Elmo says ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE” followed by additional antisemitic slurs.
“F*** Jews,” one post continued.
“DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES.”
“JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD AND NEED TO BE EXTERMINATED.”
The hackers also targeted President Donald Trump in their posts, using profane language to describe him and making unfounded accusations.
They referenced the Jeffrey Epstein case and demanded the release of an “Epstein client list.”
The posts specifically called Trump a “child f*cker.”
The timing of these posts coincides