trust-engineering

LinkedIn is always working hard to make sure that its platform is a safe and trusted place for its members. We've been on a journey to strengthen our platform against abuse by continuously improving our account restriction systems. This helps us ensure that our policies are followed and that our community can keep growing. In a previous blog post, we talked about how we built our anti-abuse platform using CASAL. This powerful system is our first line of defense against bad actors and adversarial attacks. In this blog post, we'll go deeper into how we manage account restrictions. […]

Co-Authors: Shubham Agarwal and Rishi Gupta At LinkedIn, we work every day to deliver a safe and trusted experience for our members and customers. A key part of this work is our content abuse defense systems, which function behind the scenes to help detect and remove policy-violating content from the platform, while helping surface professional, relevant, and meaningful content that adds value to the member experience. We rigorously invest in enhancing these defense systems, which are a foundational pillar to maintaining member trust and safety and delivering a positive member […]

Authors: Ryan Rogers, Subbu Subramaniam, Lin Xu Contributors: Mark Cesar, Praveen Chaganlal, Xinlin Zhou, Jefferson Lai, Jennifer Li, Stephanie Chung, Margaret Taormina, Gavin Uathavikul, Laura Chen, Rahul Tandra, Siyao Sun, Vinyas Maddi, Shuai Zhang Content creators post on LinkedIn with the goal of reaching and engaging specific audiences. Post analytics helps creators measure their post performance overall and with specific viewer demographics, so they can better understand what resonates and refine their content strategies. The number of impressions on each post shows how many […]

Co-Authors: Abhishek Chandak and Ritish Verma We recognize that our 1 billion members and their over 10 billion years’ worth of collective knowledge and insights bring tremendous value to the LinkedIn community. That's why we're committed to enabling our members and customers to safely engage and connect with content. Our Trust & Safety team works diligently to keep harmful content off the platform, allowing members to tap into the real-life, meaningful insights and information shared by their peers. We do this through a multi-layer defense system that includes AI models, member […]

Since learning frontend and backend skills, Rishika’s passion for engineering has expanded beyond her team at LinkedIn to grow into her own digital community. As she develops as an engineer, giving back has become the most rewarding part of her role. From intern to engineer—life at LinkedIn My career with LinkedIn began with a college internship, where I got to dive into all things engineering. Even as a summer intern, I absorbed so much about frontend and backend engineering during my time here. When I considered joining LinkedIn full-time after graduation, I thought back to the […]

Co-authors: Shivansh Mundra, Gonzalo Aniano Porcile, Smit Marvaniya, Hany Farid A core part of what we do on the Trust Data Team at LinkedIn is create, deploy, and maintain models that detect and prevent many types of abuse. This spans the detection and prevention of fake accounts, account takeovers, and policy-violating content. We are constantly working to improve and increase the effectiveness of our anti-abuse defenses to protect the experiences of our members and customers. And as part of our ongoing work, we’ve been partnering with academia to stay one step ahead of new types […]