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University of Portsmouth: Research reveals how fake social media accounts could be the cause of serious security breaches. “New research led by the University of Portsmouth has found that fake social media profiles, particularly LinkedIn accounts, are a leading cause of security breaches among professionals.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/university-of-portsmouth-research-reveals-how-fake-social-media-accounts-could-be-the-cause-of-serious-security-breaches/

Boing Boing: Why LinkedIn’s corporate influencer culture has become social media’s biggest cringe . “I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of the r/LinkedInLunatics subreddit recently, which compiles the very best LinkedIn’s movers and shakers have to offer without necessitating a personal dive into that coffee-scented hellhole. Whether it be the posts clearly written just to flex or railing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/boing-boing-why-linkedins-corporate-influencer-culture-has-become-social-medias-biggest-cringe/

Engadget: LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job. “The company is introducing a revamped search tool that aims to make it easier for job seekers to find relevant roles. Up to now, LinkedIn’s job search feature relied mostly on matching keywords. With the update, though, LinkedIn is ditching the keywords in favor of AI so its system is able to understand job listings on a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/engadget-linkedin-wants-you-to-tell-its-ai-about-your-dream-job/

The Verge: LinkedIn will let your verified identity show up on other platforms. “LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool. Adobe is among the first companies to sign up.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/the-verge-linkedin-will-let-your-verified-identity-show-up-on-other-platforms/

Financial Times: Meet the LinkedIn superusers. “[Paul] Verrico is one of the platform’s superusers — professionals that have amassed networks sometimes reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, which they use to build their brand. For these users, LinkedIn is no longer just a recruitment site but a space to publish content relating to their work, to self-promote, share […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/financial-times-meet-the-linkedin-superusers/

TechCrunch: LinkedIn passes $2B in premium revenue in 12 months, with overall revenue up 9% on the year. “On Wednesday, as Microsoft reported its Q2 numbers, the company noted that LinkedIn revenue has grown 9% over the last year. And later, in earnings remarks, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that LinkedIn passed a record $2 billion in Premium subscriptions revenue in the last 12 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/31/techcrunch-linkedin-passes-2b-in-premium-revenue-in-12-months-with-overall-revenue-up-9-on-the-year/

Karol Horosin: How I built a browser extension to make LinkedIn less annoying. “A few days ago I posted about a tool I’ve created allowing to extract LinkedIn post’s exact date from its URL. Someone encouraged me to turn it into a browser extension. Well, two days and several chats with AI later, here I come with the plugin. I don’t want it to only be about dates, because there are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/25/karol-horosin-how-i-built-a-browser-extension-to-make-linkedin-less-annoying/

The Register: LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages. “LinkedIn was this week accused of giving third parties access to Premium customers’ private InMail messages for AI model training. A lawsuit [PDF], filed on behalf of Alessandro De La Torre in a California federal court, alleges InMail messages were fed to neural networks based on LinkedIn’s disclosure last year.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/23/the-register-linkedin-accused-of-training-ai-on-private-messages/

TechCrunch: Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals. “Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity. As part of the deal, Read.cv will begin to wind down operations Friday. Users will be able to export their data, including their profiles, posts, and messages, until May […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/18/techcrunch-perplexity-acquires-read-cv-a-social-media-platform-for-professionals/

Bloomberg: The New $30,000 Side Hustle: Making Job Referrals for Strangers . “Copy, paste, refer. Over 18 months, that’s the simple process that helped one enterprising tech worker recommend more than a thousand job candidates to his employer. His efforts produced more than half a dozen successful hires for the company and roughly $30,000 in employee referral bonuses for him. No one seemed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/12/the-new-30000-side-hustle-making-job-referrals-for-strangers-bloomberg/

Science: As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings. “Ever since Philipp Lorenz-Spreen stopped posting on X (formerly Twitter) last year and switched to Bluesky, he has noticed how differently he responds to the two platforms. ‘Whenever I go to X now I see outrageous shit, and I actually get sucked into it,’ says Lorenz-Spreen, who studies how social media and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/12/science-as-academic-bluesky-grows-researchers-find-strengths-and-shortcomings/

Marketplace: Job seekers turn to honesty on social media to find work. “Job hunts can be brutal, with seemingly endless applications, cover letters, networking and interviews. But there’s a new trend among job seekers that’s less formal than traditional methods, where they’re using vulnerability along with their creativity.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/05/marketplace-job-seekers-turn-to-honesty-on-social-media-to-find-work/

Search Engine Land: LinkedIn tests personal post boost option. “LinkedIn is experimenting with a new feature that allows individual users to pay for increased post visibility, expanding beyond existing business page boost options.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/18/linkedin-linkedin-tests-personal-post-boost-option/