Marisha Goldhamer

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Marisha Goldhamer

@MarishaGSherry

Verification @AFPFactCheck 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Proud alum @AU_SOC 🦅 & @JHUComm. Swim mom 🏊🏻‍♂️

Katılım Kasım 2010

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·21 Oca

Really nice verification work from @chris_magan & @JeffHargarten

The Minnesota Star Tribune@StarTribune

The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found. startribune.com/the-trump-admi…

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AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck·6 Oca

🇻🇪 Ouster of Venezuela's Maduro unleashes waves of misinformation online Read more: u.afp.com/SXkE

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·20 Eki

With thanks to @CraigSilverman and Luke Arrigoni of @lotiapp for speaking to me for this story

AFP News Agency@AFP

⚾ Baseball fans are facing an onslaught of phony AI content on Facebook, pushed by a clickbait network in Southeast Asia capitalizing on interest in the lead-up to the sport's World Series, an AFP investigation has found. ➡️ u.afp.com/SsM9

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AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck·10 Tem

Many countries, including the United States, require that bread and grain products be fortified with folic acid to ensure that the population gets enough of the essential vitamin. Claims such foods should be avoided are misleading.

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·27 Haz

Awesome work by the @AFPFactCheck journalists in the Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong. We are all so proud of you🥇

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

AFP won the prestigious Gold Standard award at #GlobalFact12, the world’s largest fact-checking summit hosted by @factchecknet, for a months-long investigation on a network spreading disinformation about the disputed South China Sea 🧵

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·12 Haz

Thanks to @MelodyButler for speaking with me for this article

Nurses Who Vaccinate@NursesWhoVax

Combination vaccines are recommended by health authorities worldwide to reduce the number of jabs given to children while still offering protection from preventable diseases. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.49…

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·28 Nis

Very proud of this work from my @afpfactcheck team

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

🇨🇦🗳️Canada’s federal election is April 28, but misinformation about the snap vote is spreading across social media. Here are some of the claims we have debunked 🧵👇

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·14 Şub

🇨🇦 This meme was used to spread false Canadian foreign aid figures when I fact checked it back in 2018. Readers told us it was circulating again this month, so we wrote an updated story to let folks know it’s still wrong factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36…

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Nathan Boonstra, MD@PedsGeekMD·11 Ara

Not only is there no good evidence that vaccines increase the risk of ear infections, it's pretty clear that vaccines have reduced childhood ear infections over time. My comments in this @AFPFactCheck article by @MarishaGSherry. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36…

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·11 Ara

Thanks to @PedsGeekMD for his help refuting this claim

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

Posts connecting chronic ear infections to vaccination are not backed by evidence. Such infections frequently result from a sore throat, cold, or other upper respiratory microbe u.afp.com/earinfections

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AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck·1 Kas

🇺🇸🗳️ A video purports to show a Haitian migrant holding driving licenses and claiming he used them to illegally vote for Kamala Harris in the US state of Georgia. Officials say the supposed licenses are fabricated and do not match voter registration lists u.afp.com/5rNy

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AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck·31 Eki

🇺🇸🗳️ The 2024 presidential election has seen a widespread effort on social media to undermine public trust in the vote. Here are some common false claims Americans should be aware of as they head to the polls and digest the results

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·29 Eki

The presidential election is incredibly close and officials are asking for patience to allow every vote to be counted. I looked at the election laws in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Arizona to explain why tabulation takes time and isn’t a sign of coordinated fraud

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

🇺🇸🗳️ False fraud claims target US swing states ahead of election u.afp.com/5KKh

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Anuj Chopra@AnujChopra·14 Eki

NEW 'Stolen satire' feeds US election misinformation "Sharing weaponized misinformation in the form of lazy jokes has quickly come to define" the #2024Elections race. With @NatyyWade @MarishaGSherry @AFP @AFPFactCheck yahoo.com/news/stolen-sa…

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·12 Eki

Very proud of how our team stepped up to refute the disinformation about the hurricanes👏👏👏 @jacob_manon, @billdmccarthy, @NatyyWade, @galgano_daniel, @alexiapartouche, @rleverafp and @dpfunke

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

Monster hurricanes slamming the United States in recent weeks have triggered a torrent of disinformation, with politicians and social media users reviving conspiracy theories about weather manipulation, and more. Here are the claims we debunked 🧵👇

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Bill McCarthy@billdmccarthy·2 Eki

Fact-checking several false and misleading claims from the US vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz, with @arthurmacmillan and @MarishaGSherry for @AFP: barrons.com/amp/news/fact-…

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·23 Eyl

Many thanks to @LeoRamirezAFP for his help with analysis of this video

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

🇺🇸 A clip from a campaign speech Kamala Harris gave in Atlanta, Georgia has been altered. It was slowed to run at approximately 80% of the original's speed, an AFP analysis showed u.afp.com/5aQz

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·28 Ağu

Great work from @dpfunke showing how disinformation about the 2020 US election continues to negatively influence voter trust and impact safety for key poll workers

Daniel Funke@dpfunke

Election officials in the state of Arizona are giving public tours of a fortified ballot processing center to assuage fraud concerns ahead of the US presidential election. My @AFP report from Phoenix, with photos by @pfal: u.afp.com/5LMQ

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Marisha Goldhamer@MarishaGSherry·16 Ağu

Check out these fact-checks from our US team 👇🏻

AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been the target of ample misinformation since US Vice President Kamala Harris named him her running mate in the 2024 election. Here are some of the claims our team has fact-checked so far 🧵

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AFP Fact Check 🔎@AFPFactCheck·17 Tem

Federal investigators have named Thomas Matthew Crooks as the shooter behind the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump, but that hasn’t stopped social media users from misidentifying the suspect. Here are a few of the false claims our team has debunked 🧵

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