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Elmo X/Twitter account got hacked; Calls Trump ‘CHILD F****R’ in profane Epstein posts: ‘RELEASE THE FILES!’ and shares Antisemitic posts. (infosec.pub)

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Source -CNN- with The spokesperson for Sesame Workshop, the makers of “Sesame Street,” confirmation.

“Elmo’s X account was compromised by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts,” a spokesperson for Sesame Workshop, the makers of “Sesame Street,” told CNN in a statement. “We are working to restore full control of the account.”

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

See that is what im always sorta wondering. Is it real people or is it being manipulated by folks to lower the impact of what they do? I definitely think most of it is real folks but I also feel there are unfriendly forces stoking the flames to get them pushing the extremeness that turns off the middle folk. Whats really bad is before I had a bit of sympathy and would push a bit on the issue but now there are much more local immediate concerns that just take precedence. I will be more concerned with global affairs when people are not being grabbed and renditioned to a foreign gulag over here.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I suspect it mostly started as propaganda. Which then became successful and caused genuine believers to repeat it and spread it.