Up until that bot-bath, LinkedIn had largely skated by without having to deal with or even really acknowledge their bot problem. After all, as the New York Times reported in 2019, unlike Twitter and Facebook that have been enveloped in a war that they often pretend isn't happening on their platforms over issues of misinformation, LinkedIn isn't exactly a place people go to radicalize their neighbors. As John Herrman wrote, "Topics that can be risky for rank-and-file workers to bring up in an office, such as pay inequality, diversity or workplace harassment, tend to unfold on LinkedIn in the manner of an event organized by human resources." This is to say that LinkedIn doesn't quite lend itself to controversial discourse.