People lie regularly on LinkedIn. It's a given to boast and make hyperbolic claims about one's career-related feats. No employer gets a fair idea of the actual background and abilities of a job-seeker by looking at his or her LinkedIn profile.
How about a feature that lets the world know how genuine or fake a LinkedIn user's claims are? In short, how about a mechanism through which one can validate someone's profile?
Someone has come up with the idea of adding Community Notes (something of a fact-checking mechanism). "Recruiters added context they thought people might want to know" is the title of a section proposed by a Twitter user who goes by the name Gaut. "This feature would destroy 95% of all Linkedin profiles. More fiction is written on Linkedin than fiction novels," he writes.
So far, the tweet has grabbed nearly half a million views. Looks like everyone is pissed off with others' lies on LinkedIn!
https://twitter.com/0xgaut/status/1652334775103897600
