Edited: 2 sources added, text revised
Show changesHide changes
BeforeLinkedIn is a professional networking platform where users connect with colleagues, share professional content, and engage in industry discussions. It has become a venue for political and policy discussions among professional and business audiences.
AfterLinkedIn began in co-founder Reid Hoffman's living room in 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003. It states its mission as connecting "the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful," and reports more than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories. Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn in December 2016. Unlike most large social platforms, LinkedIn prohibits paid political advertising outright: its advertising policies bar ads "advocating for or against a particular candidate, party, ballot proposition, law, regulation, or otherwise intended to …