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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Another Silicon Valley titan was closer to Jeffrey Epstein than he’d previously admitted.

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.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
LinkedIn has a new puzzle game: Zip.

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.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
LinkedIn now has over 55 million verified users.

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.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
LinkedIn has been fined over $300 million for violating European privacy rules.

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.”

DPC Ireland released this infographic to summarize the situation.
DPC Ireland released this infographic to summarize the situation.
Image: Data Protection Commission Ireland
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Even LinkedIn is trying TikTok-like videos now.

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.

The Microsoft-owned platform is the latest to jump on the vertical video bandwagon, following Twitch, Reddit, Spotify, and even Netflix in experimenting with similar features.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Would you like to play a game?

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.

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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
“How does LinkedIn become an AI-first product, just like we became a mobile-first product or a social-first product?”

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.

LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism

The comments came during a town hall meeting amid the George Floyd protests

Zoë Schiffer