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.

In America, minors mixed up in crime are often tried as adults, receiving lengthy, even lifelong sentences, in jails where they face disproportionate harm.

But a growing body of science and some recent Supreme Court rulings are slowly leading to reform.

And, in many ways, the topic of mental health remains taboo in China.

Either because of that fact or despite it,

a big Broadway musical about bipolar disorder has become a smash hit with Chinese audiences.

First up, though, Facebook's oversight board released a momentous ruling yesterday, upholding its ban on former American president Donald Trump.

His account had been suspended in January,

after he called rioters who raided the Capitol building very special and great patriots.

The ruling is about just two of Mr. Trump's Facebook posts, but it hits at a far wider concern that for the big social media platforms isn't going away, just what counts as free

speech and who gets to define and control it. Yesterday, the majority of the Facebook Oversight Board

agreed that two of Donald Trump's posts that he put on Facebook during the riots in the capital

on January 6th violated Facebook's

specific policies against praising individuals committing violence.

Hal Hudson is the economist's technology correspondent.

Some of the board also thought that those posts could be interpreted under Facebook's rules

against actually inciting violence, subtly different from praising individuals

committing it. And ultimately, what they found could have been used to make a much bigger

argument for Facebook to keep Trump off of its platform for a longer time. But that's not what

ended up happening. And let's wind back just a bit. What is the oversight board here that's making this ruling?

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