UK Paper Mistakes NY Wine Importer for De Blasio
- For more than a decade, a Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio has been receiving emails intended for another man with a similar name: former New York...
- Last week,he decided to respond to one of these misdirected emails - inadvertently setting off an international news cycle based on misinformation in the final days of New...
- After receiving an email from a reporter with the Times of London asking for his - well, de Blasio's - thoughts on Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, DeBlasio...
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Email Mix-Up Causes Mayoral Election Misinformation
What Happened?
For more than a decade, a Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio has been receiving emails intended for another man with a similar name: former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Last week,he decided to respond to one of these misdirected emails – inadvertently setting off an international news cycle based on misinformation in the final days of New York City’s mayoral election.
After receiving an email from a reporter with the Times of London asking for his – well, de Blasio’s – thoughts on Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, DeBlasio replied with a four-paragraph critique of the candidate’s agenda, which the real ex-mayor has enthusiastically endorsed.
“I did some research on the proposals and I wrote down my thoughts and used ChatGPT to do a little fine-tuning,” DeBlasio, 59, told the Associated Press. “Then I forgot about it and went on vacation. I never thought it would make it into the news.”
But it did.
Zohran Mamdani: NYC’s young mayoral hopeful rattles the Democratic establishment
In an exclusive story published online Tuesday night, the Times of London reported the former