The current verification system is very limited and only works if a company/user has been verified on another platform. In my opinion, the whole purpose of the verified badge on telegram, is to differentiate the fake channels and point out the legit channels.
Thousands of users across telegram get scammed everyday because they joined a fake channel that asked them to click a link or send them money. A simple blue tick on the correct channel would greatly reduce the number of scams.
It would be super helpful if telegram could rework the requirements so that we wouldn't need to be verified on other platforms. One way they can do this is by having a follower based system. For example, channels with 100K+ member and 100K+ followers on another platform such as Twitter qualify for the badge.
Would love to hear what other people think of this idea and hopefully we can reduce scams happening across Telegram. 🙏
I agree. In addition i would like to add that many communities are also active in discord and it would be great if telegram would also consider discord as one of the requirements to be verified.