LinkedIn

Report March 2025

Submitted
Commitment 21
Relevant Signatories commit to strengthen their efforts to better equip users to identify Disinformation. In particular, in order to enable users to navigate services in an informed way, Relevant Signatories commit to facilitate, across all Member States languages in which their services are provided, user access to tools for assessing the factual accuracy of sources through fact-checks from fact-checking organisations that have flagged potential Disinformation, as well as warning labels from other authoritative sources.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 21.1 Measure 21.2 Measure 21.3
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Not applicable
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
Not applicable
Measure 21.1
Relevant Signatories will further develop and apply policies, features, or programs across Member States and EU languages to help users benefit from the context and insights provided by independent fact-checkers or authoritative sources, for instance by means of labels, such as labels indicating fact-checker ratings, notices to users who try to share or previously shared the rated content, information panels, or by acting upon content notified by fact-checkers that violate their policies.
QRE 21.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on the policies, features, or programs they deploy to meet this Measure and on their availability across Member States.
As detailed above in QRE1.1.1 and 17.1.1, LinkedIn prohibits misinformation and disinformation on its platform, whether in the form of organic content or in the form of advertising content. LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, which apply to all content on LinkedIn’s platform, expressly prohibit the sharing of false or misleading content, including misinformation and disinformation. 

Where content is identified as misinformation (whether as a result of a report or proactively detected), we do not label it, rather it is removed from LinkedIn. This includes situations where LinkedIn personnel leverage the conclusions of fact checkers to determine whether the content at issue violates LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies.

Please also see our response to QRE 17.1.1 which details how our internal team of experienced news editors provides trustworthy news about current events from verified sources and other steps we take to tackle disinformation. 
SLI 21.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report through meaningful metrics on actions taken under Measure 21.1, at the Member State level. At the minimum, the metrics will include: total impressions of fact-checks; ratio of impressions of fact-checks to original impressions of the fact-checked content–or if these are not pertinent to the implementation of fact-checking on their services, other equally pertinent metrics and an explanation of why those are more adequate.
As detailed in our response to 21.1.1, LinkedIn removes, rather than labels, content that violates policy on false and misleading content.

Accordingly, the metrics for this SLI for the period 1 July – 31 December 2024 is zero. 
SLI 21.1.2
When cooperating with independent fact-checkers to label content on their services, Relevant Signatories will report on actions taken at the Member State level and their impact, via metrics, of: number of articles published by independent fact-checkers; number of labels applied to content, such as on the basis of such articles; meaningful metrics on the impact of actions taken under Measure 21.1.1 such as the impact of said measures on user interactions with, or user re-shares of, content fact-checked as false or misleading.
As detailed in response to QRE 21.1.1, LinkedIn removes, rather than labels, content that violates our policy on false and misleading content. Accordingly, the metrics for this SLI for the period 1 July – 31 December 2024 is zero.