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-to-moment.

The runoff hits Lori Lightfoot, a lawyer against veteran politician Tony Prekwinkel. 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. But even frankly, it wouldn't have been too long ago

that it wouldn't have been possible. Her candidacy comes at a key moment for gay, bisexual,

and transgender politicians in America. In last year's midterm elections, gay rights groups

celebrated the election of a record number of candidates from minority sexuality and gender identity

groups. Colorado's governor is a gay man, an organ's a bisexual woman. And there's another

high profile out mayor in the Midwest. I'm Pete Buttigieg, I'm the mayor of South Bend,

when I arrived in Austin. He announced his run to be the Democratic nominee for president

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