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LinkedIn released its Transparency Report for the second half of 2021, highlighting an increase in misinformation removed from its platform, crediting enhanced automated defenses, as well as improvements in its technology to detect fake accounts.
Vice president, legal, digital safety Patrick Corrigan wrote in a blog post, “Once again, we saw record engagement on LinkedIn during this reporting period. While the majority of that content was constructive, we saw an increase in the amount of misinformation, fake accounts and other abusive content and behavior removed from LinkedIn.”
LinkedIn said its automated defenses blocked 96% of all fake accounts that were removed during the last six months of last year, adding that 11.9 million of those accounts were stopped at registration, 4.4 million were restricted proactively before being reported by members and 127,000 were restricted after being reported by members.
The professional network said its automated defenses also removed 99.1% of spam or scam content during the reporting period, adding that 70.8 million pieces of that type of content were removed proactively by LinkedIn, while 179,000 were taken down after member reports.
Finally, LinkedIn broke down its content removals for the second half of 2021, saying that misinformation accounted for 207,522, followed by harassment or abusive content (156,831), violent or graphic content (37,756), adult content (36,518), hateful or derogatory content (14,810) and child exploitation (125).
