Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The advertisements you see on social media are chosen by algorithms.

New research suggests that Facebook ads discriminate on the basis of race.

But who to blame? Are the programmers biased?

Or does their software just reflect the biases in society?

We ask how to maintain a level playing field in an age of algorithms.

And slot machines bring in a surprising fraction of a casino's take.

But young people just don't flock to them like prior generations did.

The solution? Make one-arm bandits more like video games.

That turns out to be trickier than it sounds. First up though...

Today marks a historic occasion in the political history of Libya.

Today we are told that Gaddafi is dead.

It's been eight years since Muammar Gaddafi was deposed as leader of Libya and killed.

The country has been in turmoil ever since.

A UN-backed, so-called unity government holds fragile power in the capital of Tripoli.

Now, the country is in very real

danger of descending into an all-out civil war. General Khalifa Haftar is leading his rebel

troops from the eastern part of the country to the capital. 21 people are reported to have been

killed. General Haftar is a former field marshal in Colonel Gaddafi's army, who helped him

seize power in 1969, but also helped remove him more than 40 years later. Calls for a ceasefire

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