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The de Blasio "impersonator" was profiled in 2020. But he didn't have AI back then. There are at least two Bill de Blasios in New York. But when a reporter for a British newspaper recently emailed one of them to get quotes for an article about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani,
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A Reporter Misstook ‘Bill DeBlasio’ for Bill de Blasio
The Times of London was forced to retract an article after it ran quotes from a man who shares a name with the former mayor.
A Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio inadvertently grabbed international headlines this week after he responded to an email meant for another man with a similar name: former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Bill de Blasio, a top cheerleader for the far-left Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, has reversed course on the mayoral hopeful’s socialist to-do list — saying now the math to cover tab “doesn’t