Evidence gate
Definition
Evidence gate: The name Gravity uses for its rule that a website prints only claims it can trace to a source; an unverified claim is held back and never renders.
What it means
Evidence gate is Gravity's term, not an industry standard: it names the check every claim passes before it reaches a page Gravity builds. A fact that carries its evidence renders. A partnership or broker claim that cannot be verified is held back — not softened or hedged, but left off1.
Behind the gate, research treats everything external as a claim with a status, never as fact: self-reported, unverified (one third-party source), corroborated (two independent sources) or disputed1. Only what can be traced passes.
Example
A profile's bio says its owner is an official partner of a named broker, and nothing else confirms it. The partnership stays off the website; the owner's own description of what they teach, which is theirs to vouch for, stays on.
Why it matters to an IB
The gate protects the IB as much as the reader: a page with nothing unprovable on it has nothing to retract. The principle works without Gravity — evidence before claims sets it out for any IB checking their own page.
Sources
- How Gravity builds an IB website — Gravity