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 ...

Meet Bill DeBlasio, the man a British newspaper confused with ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio

A Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio inadvertently grabbed international headlines this week after he responded to ...

Bill de Blasio says Times of London Mamdani story ‘false and fabricated’

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said a Times of London newspaper story in which he was reported to discuss New ...

It Wasn’t a Bill de Blasio Imposter Attacking Zohran Mamdani. It Was the Wrong ‘Bill DeBlasio’

The Times of London’s international screw-up over falsely attributing quotes to former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ...

Newspaper removes interview with Bill de Blasio after former NYC mayor says the quotes were 'fabricated'

The Times of London published quotes attributed to de Blasio that were critical of Democratic New York City mayoral nominee ...

ChatGPT-Composed Bill De Blasio Interview Was “Humiliating”, Times Of London Associate Editor Tells Newsroom

A senior The Times of London editor has bemoaned the damage inflicted on the newspaper's reputation over a botched Bill de Blasio interview.
The New York Sun

Bill de Blasio Joins Bill DeBlasio for TV Interview After Times of London Case of Mistaken Identity

‘First of all, I’m upset that this guy’s better looking than me,’ the former NYC mayor says.
Nieman Journalism Lab

A Bill de Blasio impersonator tricked the Times of London into publishing a fake interview criticizing Zohran Mamdani

“The Times of London took the article down, about two hours after publication, ‘after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor,’ ...
France 24 on MSN

Times of London duped by Bill de Blasio "imposter" critical of Mamdani

A Times of London story which supposedly quoted former New York mayor Bill de Blasio criticising the Democratic candidate for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was deleted after it emerged that de Blasio had ...