GoKawiilLinkedIn Launches Peer-Vouching Feature to Verify Jobs and Schools
LinkedIn announced new verification tools letting members confirm their workplace or university through vouches from two or more connected colleagues who've known them for at least a year. Company page admins can now also remove profiles falsely claiming affiliation with their organization from search results. LinkedIn says over 115 million of its roughly one billion members have already added some form of verification to their profiles.
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The rollout responds to a rise in AI-generated impersonation, which LinkedIn's Oscar Rodriguez says has made faking identities cheaper and easier, particularly in job-recruitment scams. Giving companies power to purge fake employee listings could reduce a common scam vector where fraudsters pose as recruiters to extract money or data from job seekers. LinkedIn's data suggesting verified profiles get significantly more engagement and views may also push more users to adopt these tools, reinforcing verification as a competitive norm on the platform.
- LinkedIn now lets members verify employment or education via vouches from two-plus connected colleagues.
- Company admins can remove profiles falsely claiming affiliation with their organization from search.
- Over 115 million of LinkedIn's roughly 1 billion users have already added profile verifications.
Source: cnet.com — Katelyn Chedraoui, 2026-09-23
Published there as: “LinkedIn Adds More Profile Verifications to Combat AI-Powered Job Scams”
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