LinkedIn

Report March 2025

Submitted
Commitment 30
Relevant Signatories commit to establish a framework for transparent, structured, open, financially sustainable, and non-discriminatory cooperation between them and the EU fact-checking community regarding resources and support made available to fact-checkers.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 30.1 Measure 30.2 Measure 30.3 Measure 30.4
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 30.1
Relevant Signatories will set up agreements between them and independent fact-checking organisations (as defined in whereas (e)) to achieve fact-checking coverage in all Member States. These agreements should meet high ethical and professional standards and be based on transparent, open, consistent and non-discriminatory conditions and will ensure the independence of fact-checkers.
QRE 30.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on and explain the nature of their agreements with fact-checking organisations; their expected results; relevant quantitative information (for instance: contents fact-checked, increased coverage, changes in integration of fact-checking as depends on the agreements and to be further discussed within the Task-force); and such as relevant common standards and conditions for these agreements.
LinkedIn has entered into a fact-checking arrangement with an external, independent global news agency. This relationship helps our internal content reviewers determine if user generated content violates LinkedIn’s policy on false and misleading content

QRE 30.1.2
Relevant Signatories will list the fact-checking organisations they have agreements with (unless a fact-checking organisation opposes such disclosure on the basis of a reasonable fear of retribution or violence).
Reuters, a global news organization with 2,500 journalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world.

QRE 30.1.3
Relevant Signatories will report on resources allocated where relevant in each of their services to achieve fact-checking coverage in each Member State and to support fact-checking organisations' work to combat Disinformation online at the Member State level.
LinkedIn has implemented internal processes empowering our hundreds of global internal content reviewers to be able to obtain a fact-check from an external fact-checker partnership. Fact-checker conclusions are reviewed by internal content reviewers to determine whether the content at issue violates LinkedIn’s policy on false and misleading content and if so, the content is removed from the platform.

SLI 30.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on Member States and languages covered by agreements with the fact-checking organisations, including the total number of agreements with fact-checking organisations, per language and, where relevant, per service.
LinkedIn receives fact checking services for content in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Romanian and Slovak.

LinkedIn sends content to external fact checkers regardless of the location of the member posting the content, the viewers of the content, or the topic at issue. Content that violates LinkedIn’s policy on false and misleading content is removed.

Nr of agreements with fact-checking organisations
EU 1