The makers of Sesame Street have deleted a slew of offensive social media posts after hackers hijacked the puppet Elmo's X account to launch a tirade about Jews and Jeffrey Epstein. The posts on Elmo's account on Sunday called for the extermination of Jewish people, referred to United States President Donald Trump as a "puppet" of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the release of law enforcement files about Epstein, the accused sex trafficker who died in 2019. The posts attracted a flurry of attention online before being deleted a short time after they were uploaded on Sunday. "Elmo's X account was compromised by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts," a spokesperson for the Sesame Workshop told Al Jazeera in a statement on Monday. "The account has since been secured."