2026-02-16
25 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host Rosie Blau.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Since December under 16s in Australia have been banned from social media.
Other countries are getting ready to follow.
But does such legislation actually work?
And for this recording, I was taken into the studio blindfolded, then asked to guess what I was tasting.
It turned out to be part exercise in ritual humiliation,
part education about a new phenomenon coming to a supermarket near you.
First up though.
The recent release of documents relating to pedophile and rapist Jeffrey Epstein has revealed an astonishing network.
An unknown number of powerful men and some women
trafficked and abused a much larger number of vulnerable women and girls.
The emails also reveal a broader trade in influence and favors,
a network peddling patronage, secrets, and access.
But making sense of the more than 3 million documents comes with incredible challenges,
one journalists all over the world are tackling.
Our data team has just published its analysis of what the trove contains.
Fortunately, there was this volunteer group of software engineers