It Won't be Long Before Microsoft Shuts Down LinkedIn (Already Subjected to Many Waves of Mass Layoffs, Offices Shut Down)
Like Twitter, Microsoft cannot quite turn its expensive acquisition into something that "brings home the bacon". In Twitter's case, it only operated at a loss (over 90% of the time) and amassed huge debt; the final (and only) big payoff was the sale of the site to a corrupt oligarch with a destructive, nefarious agenda.
Microsoft bought LinkedIn because Microsoft realised it had become quite irrelevant online. It later also bought GitHub, which is having serious trouble aside from financial problems (not a new problem; it had this problem when Microsoft bought it).
Microsoft's LinkedIn has long marketed itself as a place to "find jobs" (even if that's mostly false) and relied on this baseless "FOMO" that is, if you're not in LinkedIn, then you won't have a job. It is a fallacy of course.
We suppose that Microsoft's LinkedIn will be cut off in a matter of years, the only questions is, how many?
Microsoft spent the past couple of years experimenting with slop in LinkedIn because something needed to change; the losses weren't going to just "go away". Same for GitHub.
It's very likely that LinkedIn will have some more layoffs as early as Q1 2026. It's measured as having lost a lot of "traffic" lately, despite all the chatbots and clickbots (or clickfarms). █
Update
This was minutes ago, posted in relation to IBM RAs (layoffs) and fake openings:
