Editorial policy

TelegramInformer is a statistics site, not a review site: we report what public data shows and explain how. This page sets out the decisions that involve judgement, and who makes them: Pavel Ufimtsev, who runs the site.

What we list

We list public Telegram channels with at least 500 subscribers, whether our crawler found them or someone suggested them. Being listed is not an endorsement: the catalog describes Telegram as it is, including channels we don't agree with.

What we label 18+

Channels with sexual or otherwise adult content stay in the catalog and the rankings, with an 18+ label. Their photos and posts are blurred until a visitor chooses to see them, and they are left out of highlights on general pages such as the home page.

What we hide

Some channels are kept off the site entirely: no page, no ranking, no search result. We hide channels that:

• sell or promote drugs, weapons or other illegal goods and services;
• promote terrorism or violent extremism, or call for violence;
• exist to scam people;
• are spam: content copied in bulk, or channels that exist only to advertise.

Decisions start from automated checks (keyword and blocklist screening) and are confirmed by a person. Channels that Telegram itself marks as a scam or fake keep their page, with that mark shown. Channels that only report on these subjects, such as news channels covering crime or war, are not hidden.

Rankings aren't for sale

• Positions are calculated from the numbers alone, by the rules on the methodology page.
• Nobody can buy a position, a badge, a review or a better category, and paying never changes a channel's statistics.
• A channel's owner can't remove a channel's public statistics or improve them by paying or asking.
• We don't run, own or promote channels that appear in our rankings.

Advertising

The site is funded by advertising, currently Google ads. Ads are always visibly separate from the data and labelled. If we sell ad placements directly in the future, the same rule applies: an ad never changes a channel's numbers, rank, category or position, and advertisers get no say in what we publish.

Sponsored channels

In the future we may show up to two sponsored channels on a category or ranking page. If we do:

• they appear in a separate block marked "Sponsored", outside the ranked list, and carry no rank number;
• the ranking itself doesn't change: the channel at #1 is still the one with the best numbers;
• a sponsored channel must already meet our listing rules above; we don't accept channels we would label or hide;
• the label stays even if the sponsored channel would rank on that page anyway;
• a sponsored listing is an ad, not a recommendation, and it buys nothing else: not a better category, not a review and not a change to how the channel is measured.

How we use AI

• Classification. An AI model suggests each channel's category and audience country from its title, description and recent posts. A person reviews the results, and a person's decision always overrides the model.
• Writing. AI tools help draft and check some of our texts, such as the explanations on channel pages and these policy pages. Everything is reviewed and published by a person. All figures come from our database, never from an AI model.
• No invented data. We never use AI to estimate, fill in or "smooth" statistics. Missing values are shown as missing.

Corrections

We correct verifiable errors as soon as we can. Report one on the contact page or at hello@telegraminformer.com, with the page and what you think is wrong. Fixes that change data for many channels, or how something is calculated, are recorded in the change log.

Requests from channel owners

If you run a channel, we can:

• move it to a better-fitting category, country or language;
• add our own short description where the Telegram one is empty or misleading;
• re-check it straight away after a rename, a new photo or a change of username.

We won't remove accurate public statistics on request, just as a newspaper wouldn't remove a fact. Exceptions: a channel that has become private and wants its history removed, and personal data in a channel's description or posts that should not be republished. Write to hello@telegraminformer.com from an address we can verify, or mention the request in the channel's description, so we know it comes from the owner.

Comments and submissions

Visitor comments and suggested channels are moderated. We remove spam, abuse, personal data and anything that breaks the rules above, and we don't edit what people write.