Winners of the Smartest Person encourage Akwasi: 'I was horrified to learn of the racist messages'

Winners of previous seasons of The smartest person jointly shared a statement on Tuesday in which they supported Akwasi from Omroep Zwart. Since joining, he has been trending on X every night for hateful posts. 'We find it painful to read that participation in The smartest person has led to the sharing of so many hateful comments and, now in particular, racist curses. We think that is very bad.'