Ryan Roslansky, LinkedIn CEO as of Monday, said: "We are not and will not be a company or platform where racism or hateful speech is allowed."
LinkedIn's new CEO apologized to employees after the company allowed a meeting to address protests across the United States over police brutality and systemic racism prompted by the death of George Floyd to be taken over by"appalling," anonymous employee comments.
Ryan Roslansky replaced Jeff Weiner as LinkedIn's CEO on Monday. On Wednesday, LinkedIn held a town hall meeting to discuss racial inequality and biases. During the meeting, first reported by the Daily Beast, staffers criticised the protests and LinkedIn's efforts to diversity its workforce by posting anonymous messages into the event's chat window.
Story continuesOther LinkedIn staffers were outraged, according to the Daily Beast, and called the comments"disturbing and racist."
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