Transparency Report: Second Half of 2022

Today we published our Transparency Report for the second half of 2022. The report includes government requests and our community report that shows the action we took to remove fake accounts and content that violates our Professional Community Policies. We continue to see record engagement from our growing community of over 900 million members, with more people than ever coming to LinkedIn to share their knowledge, opinions, ideas, and experiences. 

Here are a few takeaways from this report:

• We stopped more fake accounts compared to the previous period, 99.6 percent of which we blocked before members reported them. Because of our multidimensional approach to combating fake accounts, the manner in which we caught fake accounts changed a bit this period. 87.4 percent were detected by our automated defenses, with the remaining 12.6 percent caught through manual investigation. By way of comparison, during the last period 95.3 percent were caught automatically and 4.7 percent manually. With the rise of fraudulent activity taking place across the internet, we continue to treat fake accounts as a top priority and invest in additional verification features, safety tools, and automated defenses to support safe experiences.
• We removed more hateful, derogatory, harassing and abusive content during this period, as well. We attribute this to improved automated defenses, increased engagement, as well as world events, such as the war in Ukraine. In addition, as part of our anti-harassment work, we introduced new technology that uses machine learning to proactively detect unwanted romantic messages. Since launching in October, we have been able to increase the detection of unwanted romantic messages by more than 4x.

We work every day to create value and opportunity for our members and customers. At the center of this work is keeping LinkedIn a safe, trusted, and professional community. To learn more about our ongoing efforts please visit the Transparency Center.