{"id":324968,"date":"2026-08-19T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324968\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:14:11","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-team-insists-he-didnt-use-ai-for-video-of-him-sharing-news-in-mandarin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324968\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Team Insists He Didn\u2019t Use AI for Video of Him Sharing News in Mandarin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a partnership to give two thousand free Broadway tickets to high school students across the five boroughs. He posted the news on August 13 and in follow-up clips, including a Mandarin video and a Bengali version, Zohran Mamdani reiterated the Broadway tickets plan.After online speculation suggested AI involvement, spokesperson Joe Calvello said, &#8220;this is NOT AI.&#8221; On August 16, a spokeswoman told The New York Times he has not seriously studied Mandarin since Bronx High School of Science.State Senator John Liu, fluent in Mandarin, graded the pronunciation a solid B and &#8220;A+ for effort.&#8221; Past campaign clips showed Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu use; Al Jazeera in July 2025 cited experts on the strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a partnership to give two thousand free Broadway tickets to high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122398,80316,43065,9,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-324968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bengali-version","tag-high-school-students","tag-joe-calvello","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}