There’s nothing newsworthy about someone from Long Island disliking a progressive policy in New York City. Still, it made the headlines in The Times of London.

That UK paper interviewed Bill DeBlasio about the campaign of New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani. In the interview, he criticized portions of Mamdani’s policy platform and the Murdoch-owned outlet ran a story saying that the former New York mayor had some issues with the upstart candidate. The only problem? DeBlasio is not former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Semafor identified the man at the center of the reporting mix-up as a 59-year-old wine importer who had received an email from a Times reporter and decided to respond. DeBlasio told Semafor that he never claimed to be the former mayor and was surprised to see his c

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