That is exactly the same as Twitter.
How do you think Twitter identified President Trump, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz etc without some way of identifying them?
If you are six pack Joe that no one has heard of, you don’t need to show them sh*t.
Twitter have stopped doing blue ticks except for political candidates. They rely on outside entities to do it for them which I thought was strange...
Some teen was able to fool them with a fake profile:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/index.html
(Yes I know its CNN but they give some insights into what the process is these days).