LinkedIn updates: LinkedIn is valuing genuine engagement and authentic content above all else. Now, along with the options to rank comments as ‘Most Relevant’ or ‘Most Recent,’ users will also get the choice to sort them out as per verified users. The new option is called ‘Has Verifications.’
According to a post on LinkedIn’s Help Centre: “At LinkedIn, we’re looking for new ways to help members more easily find authentic comments on posts with large comment volumes. Some members may see a new comment sort option called Verified Members, alongside Most Relevant and Most Recent. When selecting this option, you will see comments exclusively from users with verified profiles, helping you focus on insights from trusted professionals.”
LinkedIn updates designed to help professionals better
With this new sorting feature, users will be able to first go to comments by verified profiles directly and thereby circumnavigate less important comments. It also helps cut down on the noise of AI-generated content. This adds the trustworthiness factor of the platform.
These LinkedIn updates will also help users, especially those managing large comment sections, to get useful insights from the comments left by verified professionals.
As per a LinkedIn report published in December 2025, more than 100 million members had verified their identity in the app. Verification on LinkedIn is free of charge, which is not the case for Instagram and X. LinkedIn verification is done through third-party partners with the help of government-approved identification documents.
The latest updates suggest that LinkedIn is pushing verification as a way to drive meaningful, human-led discussions to stand out in high-volume conversations.
An effective tool for influencers
For LinkedIn influencers and thought leaders who regularly draw hundreds of comments on their posts, this feature will help the user rank verified voices first. This would mean placing the perspectives and opinions of credible professionals above the rest, and encouraging discourse rather than noise. It also adds a layer of social proof that signals authority and attracts quality engagement.
While this feature looks like a promising tool that will help the platform weed out spam and automated bot comments, it is a drop in the ocean as of now. LinkedIn has more than a billion users and the verified members are 100-million. Hopefully the new feature, once it passes the experimental stage and rolls out formally, will prove to be an incentive for members to get their verified badges for their accounts.
It also throws open the avenue of curating verified and trustworthy communities for LinkedIn influencers, which are built around their niche and that offer genuine engagement.
