Roslansky also discussed the challenges he faces as the incoming CEO of an established company. Leverich declined to provide additional numbers. "I just want to make sure that you are all, from this point forward, are holding myself and the executive team accountable to what a more diverse executive team looks like, and I want you to know that we're working really hard on it," Roslansky said.Īccording to its most recent diversity report, the company's workforce is 47.5% white, 40.3% Asian, 5.9% Latino, and 3.5% black. In another audio file from the meeting, Roslansky acknowledged that LinkedIn has diversity problems. Roslansky promised to work on increasing diversity on LinkedIn's executive team Facebook resisted pressure to remove false posts by politicians, and Twitter placed fact-checking notes on Trump tweets about voting by mail and a warning label on another tweet that appeared to threaten protesters in Minneapolis. Trump's only official LinkedIn pages are dedicated to his reelection campaign and his private business.įacebook and Twitter have made headlines for taking divergent approaches to Trump. Lawit did not elaborate on how LinkedIn would restrict the speech in question. "So if a leader, for instance, were to make a statement on our platform that violated our rules about inciting violence, then we would take action. And we don't have different rules for politicians and members," Lawit said. "We have rules around harmful content, hate speech, misinformation, incitement to violence. In response, Lawit said speech on the platform tends to be more respectful and professional than Facebook or Twitter and that the company has not yet encountered a situation in which elected officials violated its rules. In the recording, a LinkedIn employee asked the leaders what they would do if Trump used the platform "in the way that he's been leveraging Twitter and Facebook." I suggest you take a look at Ryan's post for more." LinkedIn's general counsel said the company would 'restrict the speech' if Trump or another politician violated its rules "During the town hall, several of our executives spoke and answered questions from employees. "We came together in a town hall meeting on race this week with employees as part of our commitment to open, honest, and constructive conversations," Nicole Leverich, LinkedIn's vice president of communications, told Business Insider. LinkedIn confirmed that all the quotes in the audio files were accurate. Other employees called these comments racist. On Thursday, LinkedIn's new CEO, Ryan Roslansky, who took over from Jeff Weiner this week, publicly apologized for a series of "appalling" comments made by anonymous employees during the forum. This story is available exclusively to InsiderĪnd start reading now. The list of sanctioned spouses is completed by Robert Kagan, husband of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Grady, and the deputy health secretary, listed as “Richard/Rachel Levine.”Įvan Ryan, the wife of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Margaret Goodlander, the wife of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, were also listed in the Russian sanctions. Russia also sanctioned US politicians and their spouses, starting with Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klein, State Department spokesman Ned Price, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Christopher W. On the blacklist were also the director of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies and the president of Bank of America. Huntington Ingalls Industries, a shipbuilder, and AeroVironment, a drone manufacturer, have also been sanctioned. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that “executives, businessmen, experts, and journalists who shape the Russophobic agenda, as well as the spouses of a number of high-ranking officials” are being barred in response to anti-Russian sanctions affecting families of officials, scientists, cultural, and business figures.Īlong with Zuckerberg, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, as well as the presidents and CEOs of military industry giants Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, 元 Harris Technologies, Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Aerojet Rocketdyne have been blacklisted by Moscow. They have an indefinite ban on entering Russia, RT reports. Moscow has sanctioned 29 US citizens, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Vice President Kamala Harris, in response to US sanctions against Russian government officials and their families. They are banned from entering Russia indefinitely. The Facebook founder is one of 29 US officials, businesspeople, and journalists who have been banned by Moscow.
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