Black creative advertising executives are speaking out against LinkedIn after several shared experiences of having their posts centered on diversity and anti-racism removed from the platform without warning. Conversations about LinkedIn censoring and demoting such posts surfaced two weeks ago when VMLY&R executive creative director of experience design, Walter Geer, shared his experience with a post about “uplifting Black voices” being removed from the platform. Geer was able to re-create the post several days after he complained about the issue to LinkedIn Help. At the time, LinkedIn Help replied that the post, which contained a video and expressed discontent with having to “beg” for DE&I numbers from advertising agencies, was removed due to a bug with uploading videos to the platform. LinkedIn Help also noted that it does not censor posts and only acts in response to community guideline violations.In an interview with Campaign US, Paul Rockwell, head of trust and safety at LinkedIn, reiterated that LinkedIn “would never censor important conversations regarding equity on LinkedIn and removes content only when it violates [its] professional community policies.” But soon after Geer was able to repost his message, it began to pick up steam, warranting dozens of comments from other ad industry professionals of color…
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Black creatives speak out against LinkedIn for removing posts
