We always try to maintain our strong commitment to making LinkedIn a safe, trusted and professional platform. Any kind of inappropriate, spam, or profane content that violates LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies are prohibited on LinkedIn. We encourage you to report any message you believe to be inappropriate, illegal or in violation of our policies. We’ve made it easier for the members to identify and report spam or harassing content by including warnings within the messages where we believe could have inappropriate content. Flagged message content will show the following warning: This message may contain unwanted or harmful content.

You can also opt in to an optional advanced safety feature that, when enabled, allows LinkedIn’s automated machine learning models to detect likely harmful content within messages. Learn more about automated detection of harmful content.

To report inappropriate content in a message after you receive the spam warning:

Note: Clicking Report will immediately move the conversation to the spam folder. Once you report a message within a conversation, you’ll no longer receive notifications for that conversation thread. Make sure you respond to all the prompts to complete the reporting process. You can report an inappropriate message even if it’s edited or deleted.

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• Recognize and report spam, inappropriate, and abusive content
• Follow or unfollow people
• Automated detection of harmful content