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Elmo's mission of kindness and wholesomeness is back in full swing, days after an alleged hack led puppet's X page to post racist remarks and claims about Jeffrey Epstein.
Jon Stewart hosted Elmo on tonight’s show, which was initially supposed to be about the tariffs. Remember those? Trump added a 17% tax to Mexican tomatoes today. But instead, Stewart did an extended riff about Elmo getting radicalized by the manosphere because he is a victim of the Male Loneliness Epidemic. The truth does, in fact, hurt.
The iconic kids' entertainment character's social media also declared in a since-deleted post that Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files.
xAI wrote that the post praising Hitler and sharing other antisemitic rhetoric was an "unacceptable error from an earlier model iteration, swiftly deleted," and condemned "Nazism and Hitler unequivocally," writing that Hitler's actions were "genocidal terrors."
Sesame Workshop issued statement after Elmo's X account was hacked Sunday, July 12, posting antisemitic and racist content. Organization condemned posts and confirmed account security has been restore
Horrific posts on the "Sesame Street" character's X account only remained online for a short period, but still went viral.
Elmo returned to X on Tuesday with a message of love, two days after a hacker used the beloved “Sesame Street” character’s account to spread antisemitic bile. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok — also known to produce content sympathetic to fascist icon Adolf Hitler — met Elmo with open arms.