Error "Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon" when Using LinkedIn Social Connection

Overview

The LinkedIn social connection fails to log users in, showing a LinkedIn error page (500):

Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon

Cause

LinkedIn has moved to using the OIDC protocol. The latest strategy version (v3 at the time of writing) of the LinkedIn Social connection Auth0 provides uses this new protocol.

Solution

When using Strategy v3 of the LinkedIn Social connection, the respective LinkedIn app must have the OIDC sign-in product enabled:

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