Microsoft’s LinkedIn, where fake is rewarded and real is punished.

There are signs that intentionally abandoning your true persona in posts on LinkedIn in an effort to game the Microsoft algorithm, which shadow-bans posts it deems undesirable—one unforgivable sin is negativism about Microsoft or AI—can work to reduce the effect of shadow-banning. For me, however, that amounts to being someone else.

As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

And I will say “I’m going to be myself, because the personal cost of being someone else to game a mindless algorithm designed by tech broligarchs is much too high.”

Author: William Lise

Long-term (49-plus years) resident of Japan. Former electrical engineer and have been translating and interpreting for over four decades.