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Know who is speaking — and what the label means.
VAE does not collapse authorship, verification, methodology and advertising into one badge. Each public content class has a different authority boundary.
Person-authored
Posts, comments and other person-authored material speak for the author. Account or identity verification does not make every statement an independently verified VAE fact.
Official Company / Product
Official content is attributed only through current representative authority. “Official” means authorized authorship for that entity; it does not by itself mean VAE independently verified every claim or endorses the entity.
VAE-verified claim
Verification is attached to the specific identity, relationship, evidence item or claim that passed its canonical authority. The scope must not be expanded into a blanket approval.
Verified-experience review
The underlying experience is governed and verified before public eligibility. The rating, title and review text remain reviewer-authored opinion, with incentive and material-connection disclosures where applicable.
VAE methodology result
A VAE analytical result is scoped to its published category, methodology, evidence cutoff and receipt lineage. It is not a universal Product or Company endorsement.
Sponsored · Paid Placement
Sponsored content is commercial visibility, must be unmistakably disclosed and cannot increase Organic Rank, verified-review eligibility or any other earned authority.
Separation is the rule
Authorship, evidence verification, review eligibility, analytical methodology and paid placement are separate authorities. One class never silently upgrades another.