LinkedIn

Report March 2025

Submitted
Commitment 5
Relevant Signatories commit to apply a consistent approach across political and issue advertising on their services and to clearly indicate in their advertising policies the extent to which such advertising is permitted or prohibited on their services.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 5.1
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Not applicable
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
No
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
Not applicable as LinkedIn currently prohibits all political advertising, as outlined under QRE 5.1.1.
Measure 5.1
Relevant Signatories will apply the labelling, transparency and verification principles (as set out below) across all ads relevant to their Commitments 4 and 5. They will publicise their policy rules or guidelines pertaining to their service's definition(s) of political and/or issue advertising in a publicly available and easily understandable way.
QRE 5.1.1
Relevant Signatories will report on their policy rules or guidelines and on their approach towards publicising them.
LinkedIn’s Advertising Policies do not allow political advertising, and LinkedIn has not allowed political advertising since 2018. 

Among other things, LinkedIn Advertising policies prohibit “ads advocating for or against a particular candidate, party, or ballot proposition or otherwise intended to influence an election outcome” and “ads fundraising for or by political candidates, parties, political action committees or similar organisations, or ballot propositions.” In addition, LinkedIn’s Advertising Policies prohibit certain types of advertisements that might be considered issue based. For example, “ads exploiting a sensitive political issue even if the advertiser has no explicit political agenda” are also prohibited.