LinkedIn is adding verification tools that ask coworkers and classmates to confirm shared experience and give companies more control over people who falsely associate themselves with a brand. The changes are aimed at the gap between what a person can type into a profile and what the platform or an employer has actually verified.
The peer feature is not a recommendation or an assessment of someone’s performance. LinkedIn says it prompts verified members to confirm that they worked or studied with a connection. Once a profile receives enough confirmations, LinkedIn can add a verification badge, and the member can opt out.
Vouching comes with eligibility checks
According to TechCrunch, the person providing a confirmation must already have a verified profile, must have been connected to the subject for at least a year and must use two-factor authentication. LinkedIn says members will also be able to request confirmations from their connections in the coming months.
Those rules are designed to make coordinated fake confirmations harder, but the feature still provides a social trust signal rather than an independent employment-record check. LinkedIn’s existing workplace verification can use a work email, Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a company-provided LinkedIn Learning license or an active Recruiter license, depending on eligibility.
Companies can sever false Page associations
Verified company Page administrators can now remove known imposter accounts so they no longer appear in search results under the company’s name. LinkedIn is also piloting a setting with selected companies that requires workplace verification before someone claiming current employment can associate with the Page.
The removal does not rewrite the person’s own profile, TechCrunch reports. It removes the clickable company association and the verified presentation tied to that Page, while members retain control of their profile text.
LinkedIn is also extending its “Verified on LinkedIn” program to Truecaller and PeerSpot. The company says more than 115 million members have verified an identity or workplace. The new features expand where those signals appear, but they remain signals of identity or association, not guarantees about every claim or interaction on an account.
