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07/17/2025
Even Elmo is getting hacked: How safe and secure is Twitter/X nearly three years after Musk’s takeover
Northeastern Global News
Even Elmo isn’t immune to cyberattacks. Over the weekend, the X account of the beloved Sesame Street character was hacked.
On Sunday, racist and antisemitic tweets were posted from the account, as well as attacks on President Donald Trump and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy. The incident came just days after Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, began sharing its own antisemitic comments on the platform.
While Elmo’s account has since been secured and the tweets deleted, the situation is emblematic of many of the platform’s most troublesome safety and security issues in the nearly three years since Elon Musk’s takeover, according to a Northeastern University cybersecurity expert.
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