Community Report

This report describes actions we take on content that violates our Professional Community Policies and User Agreement. It also shows how many requests we receive to remove content based on copyright infringement claims. It covers the six-month period between July 1 and December 31, 2019.

Fake accounts

LinkedIn is a place where real people build a professional community. There is no place for fake accounts. Our policies clearly state that members need to be real people who represent themselves and contribute sincerely.

In this reporting period, we saw fewer fake account attempts with an increase in those caught by manual review. We continue to invest in strong manual and automated defenses to protect against the changing methods of bad actors.

Fake accounts detected and removed

Spam and scams

Millions of members share and discuss professional content on LinkedIn every day. We want these discussions to help members be more productive and successful. Our policies define a variety of behaviors not acceptable on LinkedIn. By far, the most common type of inappropriate content we take action on is spam or scam content, which includes untargeted, irrelevant, and repetitive communications or invitations, often for financial gain.

In this reporting period, we saw a nominal and expected increase in spam and scams, given higher usage of our platform. Of all the spam and scams we caught, nearly all was captured and removed through our technology, before members encountered it.

Spam and scams detected and removed

Content removed