The Network feed will be limited to your connections, and accounts you follow. It’s part of a wave of new and upcoming features including virtual business cards, profile notes to help you remember where you met someone, and new tools for LinkedIn creators to monetize their accounts.
The platform began limiting the visibility of content deemed “generic or repetitive” earlier this year, and now it’s expanding this system to “low-effort” comments that may be AI-generated. That includes comments posted across LinkedIn using automation tools with “little or no human involvement,” as well as ones that “restate the original post without sharing anything new.”
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This month, users with a LinkedIn Business account will be able to offer one-on-one consultation sessions from their profiles. Users will be able to manage bookings, take payments, and host video calls directly from LinkedIn.
In 2017, while Reid Hoffman was publicly expressing outrage at pervasive sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, he was privately emailing the sex criminal. In 2018, they discussed Coinbase investments. There sure are a lot of these guys, huh? Wonder why.
As you connect numbered dots across a grid, Zip challenges you to fill in each square along the way. It joins LinkedIn’s wider lineup of daily games, which are, admittedly, pretty fun.
The company tells CNBC that it has the “most verified individual human identities of any major social network.” LinkedIn plans to authenticate the identities of 100 million users by 2025 through its free verification process. It will also start showing verification badges on posts within the main feed, CNBC reports.
The ruling was made by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) following a complaint filed in 2018 that said LinkedIn’s tracking ads business violated GDPR.
DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle commented:
“The lawfulness of processing is a fundamental aspect of data protection law and the processing of personal data without an appropriate legal basis is a clear and serious violation of a data subjects’ fundamental right to data protection.”
LinkedIn confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s testing a short-form video feed housed within a new “video” tab on the app, which one user shows off here.
Screenshots posted by App researcher Nima Owji show that LinkedIn is testing games, with companies ranked on how well their employees do. TechCrunch published some official screenshots supplied by LinkedIn, which confirmed the games.
Pour one out for the first team that gets berated by their boss over their company’s Crossclimb score.
LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero says we should all get comfortable with AI, and dismisses the notion that AI is overhyped.
And if you’re considering job hopping and want some advice? “The best career decisions that I’ve ever made have been about the people I got to work with,” he says.
The comments came during a town hall meeting amid the George Floyd protests
