{"id":180606,"date":"2025-07-14T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/elmos-account-got-hacked-on-x-shared-a-bunch-of-antisemitic-racist-post\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:41","slug":"elmos-account-got-hacked-on-x-shared-a-bunch-of-antisemitic-racist-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/elmos-account-got-hacked-on-x-shared-a-bunch-of-antisemitic-racist-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmo\u2019s Account Got Hacked on X &#038; Shared a Bunch of Antisemitic &#038; Racist Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elmo\/\" title=\"Elmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elmo<\/strong><\/a> is the victim of a hacking.<\/p>\n<p>The beloved <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sesame-street\/\" title=\"Sesame Street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sesame Street<\/strong><\/a><\/em> character\u2019s official X account was \u201ccompromised by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts\u201d on Sunday (July 13), a spokesperson for the children\u2019s show confirmed to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/elmo-hacked-x-antisemitic-posts-jeffrey-epstein-1236459543\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/elmo-hacked-x-antisemitic-posts-jeffrey-epstein-1236459543\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The posts have since been deleted.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2125694\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screenshots showed <strong>Elmo<\/strong> apparently calling for violence against Jews and calling for the release of files related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/a> case, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/14\/tech\/antisemitic-posts-elmo-x-hack-intl-scli\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/14\/tech\/antisemitic-posts-elmo-x-hack-intl-scli&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe account has since been secured,\u201d the spokesperson went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes at the same time as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/elon-musk\/\" title=\"Elon Musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok began spreading antisemitic posts on X, including glorifying Hitler and spreading conspiracies about the over-involvement of Jewish people in government, commerce and Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed,\u201d owner <strong>Elon Musk <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1942972449601225039\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1942972449601225039&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\">said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chatbot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/09\/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-releases-statement-after-spewing-antisemitic-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later issued a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/07\/14\/elmos-account-got-hacked-on-x-shared-a-bunch-of-antisemitic-racist-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elmo is the victim of a hacking. The beloved Sesame Street character\u2019s official X account was \u201ccompromised by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts\u201d on Sunday (July 13), a spokesperson for the children\u2019s show confirmed to Variety. The posts have since been deleted. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}