Updates to our Professional Community Policies

Our Professional Community Policies are clear: LinkedIn is a place for safe, trusted, and professional content. There are rare times, however, when content that violates our policies is educational or newsworthy enough that keeping it on the platform is in the public interest. We have updated our Professional Community Policies to provide clarity about the limited cases in which we would allow this content on the platform due to its educational or newsworthy value. This could be content ranging from medical procedures performed by a surgeon or real-world images of war shared for awareness or newsworthy purposes.  

We conduct a careful review of content that may call for newsworthy treatment, balancing the potential harm of leaving it on the platform against the value to members and the public by allowing it. Factors we consider include educational value, relationship to major events of the day, the speaker or content author, and whether it concerns matters of public importance. When newsworthy content might be graphic or disturbing, we will include a warning screen.

More information is available in our Professional Content Policies.