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Coinciding with multistate tour, 60-second ad shows president joking about age and stressing ‘strongest economy in the world’Joe Biden’s campaign kicked off a $30m TV and digital ad blitz in key swing states on Saturday with an ad in which the president directly addresses concerns about his age.Set to run for six weeks on stations including Black- and Hispanic-owned outlets, and released shortly after...

Duchess of Sussex finds the ‘cruel’ hatred being ‘spewed’ online disturbing and keeps her distance for her wellbeingThe Duchess of Sussex has said she received hateful abuse on social media while she was pregnant with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.Meghan gave a keynote speech as part of a panel that included the US actor Brooke Shields at the annual SXSW Conference in Texas to...

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist contentPlatformer, a prominent tech newsletter founded by the veteran reporter Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over the company’s failure to police extremist content.In a post explaining the decision, Newton said his team had identified seven Substack publications “that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence...