NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, a Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio has been receiving emails meant for another man with a near-identical name: former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Last week, he decided to respond — 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 Th

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