Since Elon Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter, he has received criticism over content moderation policies that allow hate speech. After a recent coding change for X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok reportedly used antisemitic language in its replies. It has since received an update.

Jon Stewart confronted Elmo during Monday night's "The Daily Show" over the "Sesame Street" puppet's X hack and antisemitic tweets.

Elmo's account on X was hacked over the weekend and called for the release of the releae of the Epstein Files and violence against Jews.

Jon Stewart hosted Elmo on tonight’s show, which was initially supposed to be about the tariffs. Remember those? Trump added a 17% tax to Mexican tomatoes today. But instead, Stewart did an extended riff about Elmo getting radicalized by the manosphere because he is a victim of the Male Loneliness Epidemic. The truth does, in fact, hurt.

"Elmo was radicalized by the manosphere," the Sesame Street character explained, admitting that he had not actually been hacked

The tweets, which Sesame Workshop said were posted by a hacker, focused on the files allegedly maintained by Jeffrey Epstein.

Color all of us shocked when suddenly Elmo’s official account on X was posting antisemitic remarks, yelling about the Jeffrey Epstein files, and other non-Sesame Street appropriate tweets. “Elmo’s X account was briefly compromised yesterday by an ...