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Jon Stewart scrapped his planned Daily Show monologue after Elmo's X account was hacked and used to post anti-Semitic and violent tweets. Stewart addressed the incident, humorously portraying Elmo as radicalized by online extremism. The segment featured a puppet Elmo admitting to the hacking and spouting alt-right and far-left rhetoric, highlighting the absurdity of online radicalization and its impact on children's characters.

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