LONDON: The accounts of Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson have been reinstated on social media platform X. Hopkins, who is known for being a controversial commentator and is a former LBC presenter and MailOnline columnist, was banned from the platform in 2020 after being accused of breaking rules on hateful conduct. Her controversial tweets had sparked outrage among users. She tweeted in 2017 that there must be a “final solution” to dealing with terrorists following a terror attack in Manchester. She had more than 1 million followers on the platform before her suspension. In her first post after being reinstated, she thanked X owner Elon Musk and the “Twitter family” for allowing her back on the platform. “The fight for your freedom is back on,” she added. Robinson, who once headed the far-right English Defence League, was known for posting Islamophobic content on X, which resulted in his account being suspended in 2018. Robinson said on being reinstated that he was grateful to Musk for giving him his voice back “at such an important time.” Robinson has been convicted several times for stalking, assault, using someone else’s passport, threatening behavior and contempt of court. In videos posted to Facebook, Robinson made several false accusations about a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked in a playground, and was ordered to pay £100,000 ($123,000) in libel damages. Neither Musk nor X has directly commented on the reinstatement of the accounts. However, shortly before the accounts were back in operation, one X user asked Musk why Hopkins and Robinson had been removed. Musk replied, questioning the presence of their handles on X, before adding: “Free speech is allowed, provided laws are not broken.”