LinkedIn

Report March 2026

Submitted
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn Ireland”) – the provider of LinkedIn’s services in the European Union (EU) – welcomes the opportunity to file this report on our compliance with the commitments and measures of the Code of Conduct on Disinformation (the “Code”) that we subscribed to in our Subscription Document dated 15 January 2025. This report covers the period from 1 July to 31 December 2025 (the “Reporting Period”).  

LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Its mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. LinkedIn is a networking tool that enables members to establish their professional identities online, connect with other professionals, and build relationships for the purpose of collaborating, learning, and staying informed about industry information and trends. As such, the design and function of the platform are central to its overall risk profile, which they shape in a few key ways: 

  • LinkedIn is a real-identity platform, where members must use their real or preferred professional names, and the content they post is visible, for example, to their colleagues, employers, potential future employers, and business partners. Given this audience, members by and large tend to limit their activity to professional areas of interest and expect the content they see to be professional in nature. 
  • LinkedIn operates under standards of professionalism, which are reflected both in content policies and enforcement, as well as in content prioritisation and amplification. LinkedIn’s policies bolster a safe, trusted, and professional platform, and LinkedIn strictly enforces them. LinkedIn strives to broadly distribute high-quality content that advances professional conversations on the platform. 
  • LinkedIn’s Digital Safety function helps ensure a “safety by design” approach throughout the product development lifecycle by partnering with the relevant product and engineering organizations to conduct continuous assessments of risks and address threats prior to product launch. 
  • LinkedIn services are tailored toward professionals and businesses, and LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies clearly detail what is expected of every member as they post, share and comment on the platform, including that disinformation is not permitted on LinkedIn. 

LinkedIn is committed to keeping its platform and services safe, trusted, and professional and to providing transparency to its members, the public, and to regulators. Members come to LinkedIn to find a job, stay informed, connect with other professionals, and learn new skills. As a real-identity online networking service for professionals to connect and interact with other professionals, LinkedIn has a unique risk profile when compared with many social media platforms. With this in mind, LinkedIn continues to invest in numerous Trust domains to proactively enhance the safety, security, privacy, and quality of the LinkedIn user experience. Further, as confirmed by LinkedIn’s Systemic Risk Assessments conducted to date, the residual risks most relevant to misinformation and disinformation (i.e. those relating to Civic Discourse and Electoral Process, Public Health and Public Security) are categorised as “Low” or “Minimal”. 

Unless stated otherwise, data provided under this report covers a reporting period of 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 (“Reporting Period”).  

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Commitment 24
Relevant Signatories commit to inform users whose content or accounts has been subject to enforcement actions (content/accounts labelled, demoted or otherwise enforced on) taken on the basis of violation of policies relevant to this section (as outlined in Measure 18.2), and provide them with the possibility to appeal against the enforcement action at issue and to handle complaints in a timely, diligent, transparent, and objective manner and to reverse the action without undue delay where the complaint is deemed to be founded.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 24.1
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 24.1
Relevant Signatories commit to provide users with information on why particular content or accounts have been labelled, demoted, or otherwise enforced on, on the basis of violation of policies relevant to this section, as well as the basis for such enforcement action, and the possibility for them to appeal through a transparent mechanism.
QRE 24.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on the availability of their notification and appeals systems across Member States and languages and provide details on the steps of the appeals procedure.
LinkedIn removes “specific claims, presented as fact, that are demonstrably false or substantially misleading and likely to cause harm.”  
 
In such circumstances, the author whose content we’ve actioned will generally be notified when we take action, except in certain limited circumstances like, for example, where the content at issue is deceptive high volume commercial content (e.g., fraudulent) or LinkedIn is prohibited from providing notice. Notices are typically sent by email and contain a link to a notice page containing certain additional information (e.g., about the content at issue, the policy violated, the action LinkedIn has taken, redress info and a link to allow the individual to appeal LinkedIn's decision). In order to submit an appeal, the member must confirm that they have read the relevant LinkedIn policy (a link is provided to the relevant policy, for example, LinkedIn’s policy on false and misleading information) and confirm that having reviewed the content at issue, they believe it complies with the policy. LinkedIn reviews those appeals and notifies the member of its appeal decision. If the appeal is successful, we put the content back up on LinkedIn. 
Appeals made by members are treated the same regardless of whether they use LinkedIn’s premium services. 
SLI 24.1.1
Relevant Signatories provide information on the number and nature of enforcement actions for policies described in response to Measure 18.2, the numbers of such actions that were subsequently appealed, the results of these appeals, information, and to the extent possible metrics, providing insight into the duration or effectiveness of processing of appeals process, and publish this information on the Transparency Centre.
Methodology of data measurement (where appropriate insights on data provided) 
The table below reports metrics concerning content LinkedIn removed from its platform as Misinformation, pursuant to the policy outlined in QRE 18.2.1. The metrics include:  
  • (1) the number of pieces of content removed as Misinformation between 1 July – 31 December 2025, broken out by EEA Member State;  
  • (2) the number of those content removals that were appealed by the content author;  
  • (3) the number of those appeals that were granted;  
  • (4) the median time from appeal to appeal decision for those appeals. The metrics are assigned to EEA Member State based on the self-reported profile location of the content author. 
The number of pieces of content removed as Misinformation between 1 July – 31 December 2025.  The number of those content removals that were appealed by the content author  The number of those appeals that were granted  The median time from appeal-to-appeal decision in hours 
Austria 85  2  2 
Belgium 132  7  3 
Bulgaria 8  1  1 
Croatia 8  0  0 
Cyprus 6  0  0 
Czech Republic 14  1  1 
Denmark 247  54  26 
Estonia 4  0  0 
Finland 10  3  1 
France 634  31  13 
Germany 300  21  7 
Greece 46  3  0 
Hungary 15  0  0 
Ireland 110  11  5 
Italy 421  27  14 
Latvia 8  0  0 
Lithuania 1  0  0 
Luxembourg 14  1  1 
Malta 20  0  0 
Netherlands 684  36  19 
Poland 43  3  2 
Portugal 73  6  2 
Romania 29  1  1 
Slovakia 5  0  0 
Slovenia 12  0  0 
Spain 179  7  6 
Sweden 85  5  2 
Iceland 9  1  1 
Liechtenstein 1  0  0 
Norway 51  7  3 
Total EU 3,193 220 106 12 hours
Total EEA 3,254 228 110 12 hours