Online Propaganda on LinkedIn: Community Guidelines against Ukraine
Tags: ukraine, linkedin, community
Published: 2022-04-10 19:42:55

Hello, I am from Ukraine. I’m trying to use my LinkedIn in order to spread the truth about the war that is going on right now. During the last few days, I started to see how many Russian LinkedIn profiles were posting weird shit - online propaganda about the Russian-Ukrainian War. And as I have a wide network, my friends get angry about it - they start to comment and populated my feed with notifications.

First, let me be honest. A few days ago, I got reported on LinkedIn by some Russian dude - he posted congratulations to the russian tyrant about the annexation of Crimea. And I’m not very stable right now, so I commented on his post with a few things that I’m not proud of. And what do you think - he reported me and I got a notice from Linkedin.

Today, I got a notification about one post of Russian developer that trying to relocate. He was using the new nazi sign that put*n invented a month ago. I tried to report him to LinkedIn for inappropriate behaviour and started to battle with Linkedin about its rules.

Below I’m attaching a message from Linkedin:


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vsb5op7us5ee227gknh5.jpeg)


In a few hours, I start to get comments from other people that have the same results.

People are trying to report the same dude. Same post and nothing…..

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xhtj1ibmi9qc4gmszafx.jpeg)


People are also reporting posts that Ukrainians doing in order to spread the word.


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/g043kgbrch807npezovt.png)


> “And I have a problem when mentioned that all russians are responsible for this was. Aaaand my post blocked too.“

After seeing another post about this dude, I decide to use the power that HackerNoon gives us to bring more attention to this problem.

![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/q9o3c0pemnqiuf74h5tm.png)



And I know that it’s not just one weird case. Russland seems to be running a huge propaganda machine around the globe. It was proved many times that they posted a lot of fake news.

If you want to read more about how Russia is using LinkedIn, some articles for you:


- [How Russia Is Using LinkedIn as a Tool of War Against Its U.S. Enemies](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-putin-bots-linkedin-facebook-trump-clinton-kremlin-critics-poison-war-645696)
- [Hate Speech? Racism? Expletives? LinkedIn Doesn't Care a ****](https://www.newsweek.com/hate-speech-racism-expletives-linkedin-doesnt-care-f-655321)
- [LinkedIn Formally Joins EU Code on hate speech takedowns](https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/25/linkedin-formally-joins-eu-code-on-hate-speech-takedowns/)

## How to Battle Online Propaganda

So here is a beginners guide to help you battle their propaganda:


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/o3tjn6re6rdbd9rhbvvd.png)


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/n1ruviye2eyiijctavx6.png)


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/rjn4u6rqua0lqg3yx2b5.png)



![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/2w93bne342uw7k9rg7e9.png)


If you want to listen more about what is going on here, Limarc, Richard, and I recorded a podcast a few weeks ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIWjuZwSzs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOWBSuFJGZg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guqtTk5HUGI


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f30nhznxkyo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFLebPOBiA



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAO5skGyXI


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Be safe and #StayWithUkraine