| A businessy Facebook equivalent, with over 350 million members |
Started: 2003
Founders: Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly Jean-Luc Vaillant
Subgroup: SlideShare
Staff: 7600
LinkedIn can prove very useful as an information source.
Overview
Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. As of February 2021, LinkedIn had 740 million registered members from 150 countries.
In 2016, access to LinkedIn was blocked by Russian authorities for non-compliance with the 2015 national legislation that requires social media networks to store citizens' personal data on servers located in Russia.[1]
Censorship
LinkedIn deleted the account of Robert Malone after he questioned the safety of the mRNA vaccines, a technology which he himself played a large part in creating.[2]