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.

Mark Zuckerberg published an opinion letter this weekend in newspapers around the world.

The head of Facebook is calling for all kinds of regulation, not exactly what tech gurus have advocated in the past.

But big social media firms are realizing the era of total internet freedom is behind them.

And the pop music industry in South Korea

is built on squeaky clean, wholesome stars

singing about unchallenging stuff.

But a dark underbelly of K-pop

has been revealed,

as the country reckons with its own Me Too moment.

First up, though, today, the city of Chicago will vote for a new mayor.

Now, whatever happens on April 2nd, we're going to make history.

Two African-American women.

The runoff hits Lori Lightfoot, a lawyer against veteran politician Tony Preckwinkle.

Either way, Chicago will become the largest American city run by an African-American woman.

And there could be some other history in the making.

Lori Lightfoot is a lesbian.

She said at a public dinner lately that her career would have been impossible when she first came to the city.

Right. Think about where we were then and where we are now. I'm an out lesbian, married with a child,

running in the city, the first to ever make the ballot from the LGBTQ community, not even remotely possible, certainly back in those days,

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