You Are Probably Not Being Shadow Banned on LinkedIn

You Are Probably Not Being Shadow Banned on LinkedIn

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Peter Walker

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May 19, 2025

Impressions drop 60% from the prior week for the author multiple times in 2025—most likely explained by post quality variation, not deliberate platform...

LinkedIn: You Are Probably Not Being Shadow Banned on LinkedIn

No, you aren't being shadow banned.

Seeing this way more often lately in my feed, which is mostly startup folks, and it's pretty odd. Why would we think LI cares enough about individual posts on GTM and AI to ban the posters?

Did a quick analysis and my impressions have fallen over 60% from the prior week...6 times already in 2025.

Probably means two things:

1. I had a nice week the week before.

2. My content in the lower week wasn't that good and I should do better.

Lots more people creating content here now and standing out is harder. How exciting 😁

#insights #linkedin

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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