Nearly 600,000 people on LinkedIn listed Apple as their employer on one day in October …

In this photo illustration the logo of LinkedIn can be seen on a smartphone on March 10, 2022 in Berlin, Germany.Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty ImagesLast week, a developer who tracks LinkedIn spotted massive drops in people claiming to work at Apple and Amazon.LinkedIn confirmed to Insider that the purge is part of its ongoing effort to tackle fraud and fake accounts.LinkedIn has warned its users to be wary of people asking for money on the platform as it sees a rise in fraud.Last week, the number of employees who listed Apple as their employer on LinkedIn was slashed in half over a 24-hour period.Despite what it may look like, this wasn’t the result of massive internal turmoil at Apple, but rather, a crackdown by LinkedIn on fake and bot accounts.Jay Pinho, a developer who tracks data on the professional networking site, was the first to spot plummeting employee numbers at Apple and Amazon. He shared his findings with Krebs on Security, a cybersecurity blog.On October 10, 576,562 LinkedIn accounts listed Apple as their current employer. The next day, there were less than 285,000, Pinho found.Pinho said a similar scenario happened with Amazon, which saw a 33% drop in its employee…
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