The Times of London apologized on Tuesday after it ran — and retracted — an interview with a person impersonating former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that seemed to run counter to the former mayor’s support of Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper took the story down “after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor,” it said in a statement to the New York Times. It said it apologized to de Blasio.
The initial story, posted on Tuesday evening, claimed de Blasio, an enthusiastic supporter of Mamdani, had grown skeptical of the candidate’s various policy proposals. “In my view, the math doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, and the political hurdles are substantial,” one quote from “de Blasio” read.
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