Their return, after bans for hate speech violations, has been criticised by campaigners.
A number of controversial figures have been allowed back on the platform since it was bought by Elon Musk last year.to suspended accounts that had "not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam"., nearly 190 were promoting hate and violence.
"Reinstating Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins means Elon Musk is allowing hateful content and misinformation to take place on his watch on X/Twitter," he said.Image source,Hopkins, a former LBC presenter and MailOnline columnist, has repeatedly attracted criticism for her views - including an incident where she compared migrants to cockroaches and another when she claimed that a photograph of a drowned three-year old Syrian refugee had been staged.
Hopkins had more than one million Twitter followers before her permanent suspension in 2020. The ban was for violating the platform's hateful conduct policy but it did not, however, say which of her tweets had prompted the action. Robinson founded the far right English Defence League, best known for protests against what it calls "radical Islam", but stepped down in 2013..In November 2013, Robinson pleaded guilty to fraud, and he was subsequently jailed for 18 months.
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