Hello and welcome to this 500th episode of the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Every generation gets a different kind of adolescence rooted in the times, but our social

policy editor finds real change these days in girlhood in particular.

Examples are more informed, more empowered, and more optimistic about changing the world.

And most people who get bitten by deadly snakes don't have a good idea which species did

the biting.

That makes the choice of antivenom harder or even more deadly.

We look into an effort to find a more general purpose antidote.

What's up though?

Following last week's deadly siege of the Capitol building in Washington, social media companies

have removed President Donald Trump's accounts.

Facebook's chief operating officer, Cheryl Sandberg, defended the move, saying the risk

to democracy was too big.

Our band's indefinite.

We've said at least through the transition, but we have no plans to let go.

After first announced a temporary ban, but in the end, decided to shut Mr. Trump's

personal account entirely.

In a statement, Twitter said after close review of recent tweets from the real Donald Trump

account, and the context around them, specifically how they are being received and interpreted

on and off Twitter, we have permanently suspended the account.

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