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-armed bandits

more like video games. That turns out to be trickier than it sounds.

First up though.

Today, Marcus Aestrick occasion in the political history of Libya. Today, we are told that

Gaddafi is dead.

It's been eight years since Muar 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.

Twenty-one 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 to evacuate civilians have so far been ignored.

Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who controls the east of the country, has pushed initially

south.

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