Jeremy Redfern, the press secretary for the Florida Department of Health, has been trying to get verified by Twitter for months but the social media platform keeps denying his requests:
Still can’t get @verified by @twitter, tho.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) January 3, 2022
And he was just denied again this morning:
Lol. Okay, @verified.
You win. pic.twitter.com/sbSFYEAuZ5
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) February 9, 2022
For those asking, yes, he *has* submitted documentation to prove who he is and why he should be verified:
I honestly can’t submit better evidence. I sent 10 articles. Everything from ABC News to the NYT.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) February 9, 2022
This is all so dumb. Wouldn’t Twitter want the person whose job it is to communicate with the public and journalists to be verified?
Twitter doesn't follow their own misinformation policy across party lines, of course they're not going to acknowledge their own verification guidelines consistently.
— Kyle Lamb (@kylamb8) February 9, 2022
Fix this, Twitter!
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