Jeff sites, a challenger to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, did n’t have a blue verification badge on his official Twitter page.

After speaking with Levine, the verge contacted Twitter to inquire about the nature of the delay. Within hours, the candidate was verified.

Twitter says it has verified 822 candidates since it unveiled the 2020 plan in December. But it still relies on people like Levine, who has no ties to any campaign, to prod them into action.

Twitter is supposed to double-check the information and give the candidate the blue check mark Mark mark. Once ballotpedia has verified the candidate, it adds them to a list of candidates provided to Twitter on a weekly basis.

Levine has been keeping an eye on which 2020 candidates are verified and not. He reached out to the verge Friday morning to point out sites were still not verified. His primary election is coming up on March 17th.

Levine says she’s contacted reporters and people at Twitter directly about more than a dozen 2020 candidates. She says she has not seen any evidence of bias against one party.

Levine has a history of trying to convince New York Times to update a decade-old story about a woman who ran an unregistered pet charity. Margaret Sullivan, who was the times’ public editor at the time, called Levine’one of the most persistent people I’ve ever come in contact with’.

Levine says she has kept after Twitter about the verification process because she believes it levels the playing field.’in the age of dystopian disinformation, validating candidates and their messaging is more important than ever,’ she writes.

Twitter admits the rolling process has some lag time between when candidates are registered with ballotpedia and when Twitter verifies them. The company says the goal in verifying primary candidates is to avoid giving unfair advantage to incumbents in primary races.

Twitter’s Super Tuesday platform will bring back the official election labels for candidates who qualify for the general election. Beginning March 3rd, otherwise known as Super Tuesday, the platform is bringing back the election labels.

Twitter introduced a tool for us users to report instances of voter suppression. A drop-down menu lets users choose’it’s misleading about a political election’. On March 5th, Twitter is expected to unveil its media manipulation policy aimed at curbing the use of fabricated videos and images on the platform.