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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads

Nypost · · 695 words · By Zain Khan
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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Common ground

Scott Wiener is pulling the plug on a controversial AI chatbot and the billboards promoting it after his campaign faced a furious backlash over the parody targeting his congressional rival Connie Chan.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Pelosi and a coalition of Democratic politicians and organizations condemning the use of artificial intelligence to imitate Chan.”
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Two independent reports confirm that Nancy Pelosi and a coalition of Democratic politicians/allies condemned the use of AI to imitate Connie Chan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 California State Assembly election was held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, with the primary election being held on March 5, 2024. All of the seats of the California State Assembly were elected…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_California_State_Assembly…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman atte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 11th district since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, his district e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener
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Claim 2: “Wiener finished first in the June 2 primary, with roughly 41% of the vote, while Chan came in second, with about 30%”
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California Insider and other reports confirm the June 2 primary results: Wiener received approximately 41.3% and Chan received approximately 29.5-29.8%.
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web search NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener and city supervisor Connie Chan, during the nonpartisan primary on June 2 in a race to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wiener received 41.3 percent of the vote and Chan receiv…
https://californiainsider.com/california-news/politics/elect…
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web search NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener’s embrace of supply-and-demand economics, which holds that more housing production of all types leads to lower prices in the overall market. Chan took 29.8 percent of the popular vote dur…
https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2026/06/11/sf-affordab…
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web search NEUTRAL — Chan is happy to flex her underdog status, proudly describing how her staff and volunteers beat Chakrabarti’s $10 million campaign for pennies on the dollar and talking tough about how she’ll compete …
https://sf.gazetteer.co/connie-chan-is-in-the-drivers-seat
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Claim 3: “sending both candidates into the general election runoff on November 3.”
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While the primary results are corroborated, the specific date of November 3 for the runoff is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for 2026 House elections in California, but the specific 'runoff' context for these two candidates is only implied by the primary results. The general election date is confirmed, but the specific pairing as a 'runoff' is reported in the context of the race by California Insider.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since the higher ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force have been reserved for significant wartime use only (in modern times were recreated for World War II), the rank of general is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_(United_States)
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web search NEUTRAL — The rank of general came about as a "captain-general", the captain of an army in general (i.e., the whole army). The rank of captain-general began appearing around the time of the organisation of prof…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_officer
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · The meaning of GENERAL is involving, applicable to, or affecting the whole. How to use general in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/general
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Claim 4: “California state Sen. Scott Wiener is pulling the plug on a controversial AI chatbot and the billboards promoting it”
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Multiple independent sources (Axios San Francisco, SF Standard, and a YouTube news report) confirm that Senator Scott Wiener announced the deactivation of the AI chatbot and the removal of billboards promoting it.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit advocacy organization based in California, United States. It was founded in 2017 with the purpose of lobbying for housing reform in Califo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 11th district since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, his district e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Senator Wiener may refer to: Deanna Wiener (born 1953), Minnesota State Senate Scott Wiener (born 1970), California State Senate Valerie Wiener (born 1948), Nevada State Senate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Wiener
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Claim 5: “announced Friday his campaign would remove ConnieChan.ai, along with the ads directing voters to it.”
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The SF Standard and Axios San Francisco both report that Wiener's campaign announced on Friday the removal of the AI chatbot (identified as targeting Connie Chan) and the associated billboards.
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web search NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener was blasted by his opponent--San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and her supporters--as sexist, racist and a troubling use of AI as a campaign tactic.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/sf-wiener-campai…
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web search NEUTRAL — Left: Scott Wiener. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images; Right: Connie Chan.Scott Wiener's AI chatbot targeting congressional rival Connie Chan was meant to turn her record into an interacti…
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2026/08/11/sf-scot…
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web search NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener’s campaign on Friday announced it would take down an AI chatbot that poked fun at his opponent, Supervisor Connie Chan, after accusations that the tool was racist and sexist. The campaign…
https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/07/scott-wiener-takes-connie-…
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Claim 6: “Wiener, who is running to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco’s 11th Congressional District”
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Multiple sources confirm Scott Wiener is running for the U.S. House seat in San Francisco's 11th Congressional District, which is being vacated by Nancy Pelosi.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in California will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the 52 U.S. representatives from the State of California, one from each of the state'…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. Am…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 11th district since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, his district e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener
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Claim 7: “The chatbot was created as a campaign attack on Chan”
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Axios San Francisco and other reports explicitly state the chatbot was created by Wiener's campaign as an interactive campaign attack to mock or highlight the record of Connie Chan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic de…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Wiener (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician who has served as a member of the California State Senate from the 11th district since 2016. A member of the Democratic Party, his district e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener
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Claim 8: “the seat Pelosi has held since 1987.”
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Multiple sources, including Midterms Monitor and a TikTok news summary, confirm Nancy Pelosi has represented California's 11th district since 1987.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexandra Corinne Pelosi (born October 5, 1970) is an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is a daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the United States House of Repres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Pelosi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nancy Patricia Pelosi ( pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nancy Pelosi is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the House of Representatives. She led the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Pelosi was a founding member of the Congressional …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Nancy_P…
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