A hacker shared a string of racist and antisemitic posts from the social platform X account of Elmo, the fuzzy red monster from “Sesame Street,” the owner and producer of the children’s show said Sunday.

The posts, on a verified account with more than 600,000 followers, contained racial slurs, antisemitic language and commentary about President Donald Trump and the so-called Epstein files, the remaining investigative documents of the sex-trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The posts were removed shortly after they were published Sunday afternoon.

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

Elmo, the perpetually 3 1/2-year-old beloved Muppet character on “Sesame Street,” often teaches his young audience life lessons like kindness and patience.

Elmo’s account had not posted any new messages as of midnight. X could not immediately be contacted for comment.

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has experienced a surge in racist, antisemitic and other hateful speech since Elon Musk took it over in 2022.

Last week, Grok, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, posted antisemitic comments including praising Adolf Hitler. The company deleted some of the posts and issued an apology. The chatbot’s posts mirrored the “extremist views” of X’s users, xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, which created Grok, later said.