Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.
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