Twitter will make it easier to identify political candidates

What's happening: Twitter is partnering with Ballotpedia, a nonprofit and nonpartisan online political encyclopedia, to identify the official campaign Twitter accounts of candidates.

• The company is bringing back "election labels," a feature it first launched during the 2018 midterms. Twitter says that in the week before Election Day in 2018, 13% of conversation on its platform about the midterms included a tweet with an election label.
• Beginning this week, Twitter will start identifying candidates who qualify for the primary ballot for House, Senate and gubernatorial races with a verified badge.

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