The verified posters tend to be millennial academics with masters or PhD's in history or closely related fields, and they take the name of the community seriously
Verified by whom?
Reddit as a whole is a consent manufacturing machine. These "verified" crap shoots, where every one of the "discussions" align with the confirmation bias of the people manufactured by people who want to curate the narrative doesn't have any credibility beyond people who are gullible or benefit from these narratives.
But you do you.