I spoke to Bill de Blasio about being cloned—and what public figures can do when AI fakes strike: ‘All you can do is go online and deny what it is’

In a world full of online impersonators, deepfakes, trading scams, ChatGPT writing essays, and AI-curated images, a growing ...

Bill de Blasio imposter dupes paper to pan protégé Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform: ‘Story is entirely false and fabricated’

Bill de Blasio, a top cheerleader for the far-left Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, has reversed course on the mayoral ...

Who is the real Bill de Blasio? Two men with same name meet after mix up

CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks with former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Bill DeBlasio, the man who spoofed a British ...

Times of London Editor Calls de Blasio Mishap ‘Humiliating’ in Email to Staff

A Times of London editor called a reporter being duped by a fake Bill de Blasio "humiliating" for the company in an email to ...

De Blasio and His Doppelgänger Clear Up Mix-Up Over Mamdani

Bill DeBlasio from Long Island said he was often confused for Bill de Blasio from Park Slope, the 109th mayor of New York ...
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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 person falsely claiming to be former mayor ...

British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an 'imposter'

The man at the heart of a high-stakes political mixup that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of ...

De Blasio Impersonator Tricks British Newspaper With Fake Criticism of Mamdani

The Times of London briefly ran an article with quotes from someone who the paper said had falsely claimed to be the former ...

The other Bill DeBlasio explains Times of London screwup: ‘It was all in good fun’

A man who was mistaken by a reporter for the Times of London to be former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) gave details this week on how a story came to be published attributing his quotes ...

ChatGPT Bill de Blasio Is a Sign of Things to Come

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 ...