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LinkedIn

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  1. rumor GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn ↗
  2. rumor Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B ↗

Federal contracts USAspending · public record

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Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 2049 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 2049 Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B 2016-06-13 ↗

Raw observations 48 records
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "LinkedIn's premium services revenue model includes three components: targeted contextual text ads, job listings filtered through each professional's network, and subscription se observed artifact ↗ 2004-08-01 promoted 0.50
common_name LinkedIn observed curated 2026-08-16 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 2049 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status" observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status" observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status" observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status" observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153", "title": "Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B", "points": 2049, "created_at": "2016-06-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2016-06-13 normalized 0.20
platform.visibility draft observed curated 2026-08-16 normalized 0.90
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M088K7HTP8VWWM69H65J8638", "signals": [{"quote": "Of course, we love using LinkedIn jobs at launch because we can manage all of our job postings and contact candidates observed artifact ↗ 2021-03-10 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0893RDJ42JG31QQZZ82DPQB", "signals": [{"quote": "Of course, we love using LinkedIn jobs at launch because we can manage all of our job postings and contact candidates observed artifact ↗ 2021-02-23 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0893RDJ42JG31QQZZ82DPQB", "signals": [{"quote": "LinkedIn now has over 722 million members worldwide, and they mean business. So post a job with targeted screening que observed artifact ↗ 2021-02-23 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A715CH7SB84WM0CGSA06M2", "signals": [{"quote": "LinkedIn has over 706 million members around the world now. It is the largest professional network in the world.", "st observed artifact ↗ 2020-11-10 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8GXW6K2FY39RD637AZE8H", "signals": [{"quote": "It is the best hiring platform in the world.", "stance": "bullish", "signal_class": "endorsement", "speaker_name": "Da observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-17 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8GXW6K2FY39RD637AZE8H", "signals": [{"quote": "LinkedIn has over 690 million members worldwide and they screen candidates for both hard skills and the soft skills th observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-17 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8GXW6K2FY39RD637AZE8H", "signals": [{"quote": "Aaron used LinkedIn jobs to hire a machine learning engineer who started back in July and he received over 110 relevan observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-17 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8TFTE6C982S31D99W1EKN", "signals": [{"quote": "It's the best job platform in the world. Period. End of story. There is no discussion. There is no debate. LinkedIn Jo observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8TFTE6C982S31D99W1EKN", "signals": [{"quote": "because LinkedIn has over 690 million members worldwide, and they screen the candidates on LinkedIn for the soft and t observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A8TFTE6C982S31D99W1EKN", "signals": [{"quote": "the resume in LinkedIn has historically really been about who do you know, and what your experiences are", "stance": " observed artifact ↗ 2020-09-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A9XMAQCM8H5N2TTC7VT1KC", "signals": [{"quote": "LinkedIn jobs which is the greatest place for you to find talent I have found so many members of that uses AI to optim observed artifact ↗ 2020-08-19 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A9YKHCZ0M7C5B57BTVSWWA", "signals": [{"quote": "In fact, I, I was, I've been saying LinkedIn should retool its whole business and how to post jobs for a remote world. observed artifact ↗ 2020-08-18 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A9YKHCZ0M7C5B57BTVSWWA", "signals": [{"quote": "I still think they're too wedded to the idea of like hiring in a city or locality.", "stance": "bearish", "signal_clas observed artifact ↗ 2020-08-18 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0A9YKHCZ0M7C5B57BTVSWWA", "signals": [{"quote": "We've had incredible success using LinkedIn talent and solutions to finding people because you can do it by work exper observed artifact ↗ 2020-08-18 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0APZBGVE9FE8G32WN8K6XF9", "signals": [{"quote": "That is why LinkedIn jobs is the number one way to hire. I tell all my startups, start with LinkedIn jobs, and then yo observed artifact ↗ 2020-08-07 promoted 0.50
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