charles p.

My profile is gone currently appearently due to my providing help to people in Nigeria/Rwanda/Cameroon who were trying to find employment. No one from Linkedin Customer service has responded to my repeated contacts. I see hundreds of posts about anything associated with POC being shadowbanned or having their profile removed. If LinkedIn is meant to be a network for professionals and jobseekers shadowbanning and deleting accounts seemingly targeting POC is a very dangerous behavior that pushes the world further into those who are allowed access and those who are not based on skin color. I have included some other voices as examples

Isvari Maranwe
"I first wrote about this in 2013 or 2014. Black influencers have been talking about it forever. There's even been news coverage on how badly LinkedIn (and every other social media) treats Black folks. But white people still own the media and most of the capital and nothing changes."

Dr. Claire Green-Forde, LCSW
"Learning of your experience (and others) makes me so incredibly disgusted, frustrated, and upset. I'm trying to use LinkedIn more but each time I see posts like this (and increasingly so in the last few weeks) I am disgusted and not sure that this platform is worth it. The supremacy culture at LinkedIn is on display. The very things that you're calling out are the very experiences that LinkedIn said they were created to build bridges across...yet the reality is different from the faux allyship statements..."

Tanya Bonner
"Thank you! Yes the silence from them is real. I asked for a meeting almost two years ago between LinkedIn and BIPOC folks on the site regarding the silencing of BIPOC voices on this platform and the lack of protection for them on the platform (and was quoted in various news articles on the subject), but the request was ignored. But I am aware of several white allies saying the same things BIPOC voices say everyday on this platform who are elevated and reached out to by LinkedIn. Smh."

Jayanthi Ganapathy, CA, CWA, CS
"Totally agreed
Also I am deeply saddened by the racism that has been happening on LinkedIn. I can't believe we're still dealing with this kind of thing in the year 2022. It makes me feel like we've made no progress at all, and that the fight for equality is not just an ongoing one, but one that we will never win.

I'm deeply hurt by this situation and want to express my support for everyone involved."