You don’t say: tech’s Trump bans
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Moves to shutter the president’s accounts and to crimp corners of the internet given to right-wing extremism raise thorny questions, both about free speech and social-media firms’ business models. Our public-policy editor takes a broad look at girlhood: how women’s adolescence has changed for the better but is challenged mightily by covid-19. And science’s bid to save more snake-bite victims’ lives.
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| 0:58.8 | Hello and welcome to this 500th episode of the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:06.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:12.8 | Every generation gets a different kind of adolescence rooted in the times. |
| 1:18.0 | But our social policy editor finds real change these days in girlhood in particular. |
| 1:23.7 | Girls are more informed, more empowered, and more optimistic about changing the world. |
| 1:29.7 | And most people who get bitten by deadly snakes don't have a good idea which species did the biting. |
| 1:36.2 | That makes the choice of anti-venom harder, or even more deadly. |
| 1:40.5 | We look into an effort to find a more general-purpose antidote. |
| 1:50.8 | Music We look into an effort to find a more general-purpose antidote. First up, though, |
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