The tweets, which Sesame Workshop said were posted by a hacker, focused on the files allegedly maintained by Jeffrey Epstein.

While Elmo's official X account has not made any posts acknowledging Sunday's hack, a Sesame Workshop spokesperson confirmed the incident in a statement shared with Mashable and other publications.

The Elmo hack occurred exactly a week after another antisemitism controversy on X. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok spread antisemitic posts on the social media platform. In ...

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Elmo’s social media account has lately become a place for mental health awareness. Last year, the red fuzzy monster, eternally 3 ½ ...

In case it wasn’t obvious, no, that’s not the real Elmo that posted racist and antisemitic posts on Elon Musk’s X. Someone hacked into the Sesame Street character’s X account.

Sesame Workshop has regained control of Elmo's X account after a hacker posted racist and antisemitic messages. A spokesperson confirmed Monday that the account was compromised over the weekend.

Elmo's hacked X account posted racist messages. Sesame Workshop is trying to regain control Before it was hacked, Elmo's social media account has lately become a place for mental health awareness.

Sesame Workshop regained control of its Elmo account on the X platform Monday after a hacker gained access and posted a string of racist and antisemitic messages.