I LOVE LinkedIn.
As someone working alone with international collaborations it has been an invaluable asset in my toolbox because it allows to connect easily with people you have met or want to meet without the hustle of keeping a clean email list ( 🙄 ).
I also HATE LinkedIn.
👉 Because they kicked me out of the platform (I was reinstated 3 months later thanks to a journalist investigation).
👉 Because they filter my content and ban some of it (yup, I actually can’t show you the new and never made before gynecological model based on human casting because the anatomical word “vadge/ ina” and the picture of it is deemed innapropriate and unprofessional)
Which shows that they have powerfull AI tools running all content and filtering it.
BUT- When it comes to filtering fake profiles associating with my project SEX-ED +, they can’t do anything, even if those are obviously coming from bots or bozos trying to be associated with the “sex” part. At some point I had more than 100 profiles claiming to work at SEX-ED +. When you all know I am running my business alone, in my basement in Montreal. So no, I do not have a vice-president in Lima or a dishwasher in Tamil Nadu.
I complained many times. I get banned and cancelled for my very legitimate and scientific content, that engages a lot of real people, because LinkedIn wants to keep its platform “professional”. But I can’t get very obvious fake profiles removed from associating with my work because LinkedIn cannot intervene in third-party disputes directly.
There are no third-party. A glance is enough to determine those are not real accounts. A glance is also enough to determine than my content is professional and has got its place on this platform.
So, LinkedIn, maybe it’s time to reflect on how you moderate your platform.
Have you had similar experiences? We need to share as a lot of us working on the Genito-Urinary-Medecine (GUM) field are facing more hurdles than we should online.
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