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.

Beloved Sesame Street character Elmo has broken his silence after his X account was hacked and used to share antisemitic posts.

However, on Sunday, a string of messages were posted shocking its more than 650,000 followers.