What it's doing is trying to find the link on my website not going to the URL link.
Example: bob.com/boblinkedin1234.com
when I need just boblinkedin1234
to render
<li><a href="www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-mason-a03827ab"><i class="fab fa-linkedin-in"></i></a></li>
You need to start the href with https://
i.e. the url should be https://www.linkedin.com/
to tell the browser to not target the current website