By Lucas Ropek
Over the weekend, some sort of cybercrime cretin hacked into the X account belonging to Elmo, the friendly puppet from Sesame Street, and used it to spout a bilge of anti-semitic and racist material. “Kill all Jews,” read one post. Another mentioned Jeffrey Epstein, with the added scrawl: “ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE.” Yet another post used the N-word. The posts remained online until Tuesday, when they were taken down. Elmo followed up the vitriolic posts with a return to his usual brand of warmhearted affection: “Elmo loves you,” the puppet posted.
However, the lack of an immediate apology from the puppet’s account left some web users angry. Many X users insisted that the account should address the incident, and seemed to treat Elmo as if he were a real person instead of a fictional TV character. Many of the accounts that expressed anger at Elmo mentioned Israel or included emojis of Israeli flags.
“Still not a single word of apology from @elmo or team,” wrote one account on Monday, whose bio included an Israeli flag.
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