LinkedIn has Enforced New Strict Measures and Policies, Check them Out

LinkedIn has outlined a range of new initiatives to improve its rule enforcement efforts and ensure that its members feel safe in engaging on the platform.

In a statement, the company says “every LinkedIn member has the right to a safe, trusted, and professional experience on our platform.”

The firm further added that “we have heard from some of you that we should set a higher bar for safe conversations given the professional context of LinkedIn. We could not agree more. We are committed to making sure conversations remain respectful and professional.”

In light of recent events, the platform says it is working to refine its policies. It was noted that conversations surrounding race and religion were brought on to the platform more thus prompting censorship of the content posted.

Furthermore, LinkedIn is rolling out new educational content to help users understand their obligations in this respect, which will appear as pop-up notifications or reminders when you go to post, message or otherwise engage.

The social media platform is also working with its parent company, Microsoft, in scaling their defenses with new AI models for finding and removing profiles containing inappropriate content. They have created the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT) which will help measure multiple definitions of fairness in large-scale machine learning workflows.

In addition, LinkedIn also recently rolled out a new process to detect and hide inappropriate InMail messages, tackling another key area of concern for users.

LinkedIn advises that members should ignore and report unwanted connection requests, and utilize its updated audience control options on their posts, limiting who can see and reply to their updates if they feel unsafe.

In terms of actions, users can take themselves; users have the option to select who gets to see their content. One can select ‘Anyone’, which makes their posts visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn, ‘Anyone + Twitter’, which makes their posts visible to anyone on both LinkedIn and Twitter, or ‘Connections only’, which makes your post visible to only your 1st-degree connections and reduces the likelihood of people you don’t know or don’t trust seeing your post.

Social media have become a critical element in our daily discourse and such control and measures have been sought as needed for implementation as it is reflective of how people choose to interact and engage on social media.

Other platforms like Twitter and Instagram have enforced similar controls recently with the former updating its options to “who can reply to your tweets” and Instagram added more tools to limit who engages with your updates