"Who is real" has become the most important question on the Internet. You can't talk, let alone do business with someone, when you don't trust who they are. We’ve made good progress here. 75 people now verify their profile every minute, adding to the 115M+… more
"Who is real" has become the most important question on the Internet. You can't talk, let alone do business with someone, when you don't trust who they are. We’ve made good progress here. 75 people now verify their profile every minute, adding to the 115M+ members who have already verified. Along the way, we have learned a lot too. Every government manages identity differently, there is a cost to validating if a person or company is real, not all companies have work email addresses and more. Overcoming these challenges at scale is hard, but critical to get right. We have a few new features going live to help: 1. We're enabling network verification, promoting verified members to verify connections that they worked or studied with. Obviously there are many edge cases here. Thus, we are building a series of guardrails around this, including ensuring the verifier is already verified, collecting multiple confirmations, time of connection limits, two-factor authentication requirements and more. 2. Company admins can now remove accounts that falsely claim employment from their page (fyi - this will take some time to roll out more broadly) . 3. Rather than requiring everyone to undergo separate, often lengthy, ID checks, you can choose to display your "Verified on LinkedIn" status directly on a growing list of partner platforms, now including Truecaller & PeerSpot314 reactions · 36 comments · 32 repostsOpen on LinkedIn