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Maria Flannery

Limerick

Social Newsgathering Journalist at European Broadcasting Union

journalist & writer | social media reporting & verification @EBU_HQ, bits and pieces elsewhere | EN/FR/IT

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  • Oct 30, 2024 | investigations.news-exchange.ebu.ch | Derek Bowler |Maria Flannery |Belen Garrido |Thais Porto

    Targets or Collateral Damage? By Derek Bowler, Maria Flannery and Belén López Garrido A detailed analysis of visual evidence acquired through open-source investigation and  official accounts from both IDF and UNIFIL shows that at least four of these Israeli military operations have hit directly inside or immediately next to clearly identified UN posts that operate under the mandate of United Nations Security Council resolution 1701.

  • Oct 17, 2024 | spotlight.ebu.ch | Maria Flannery

    Videos circulating on social media after news emerged of Liam Payne's death in Argentina purported to show his fall from a hotel in Buenos Aires. Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died on Wednesday, October 16, after he fell from the third storey of a hotel in Buenos Aires. The 31-year-old pop star's death was confirmed by local police soon after the incident happened. He dropped into a courtyard from a balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of the Argentinian capital.

  • Sep 21, 2024 | thejournal.ie | Maria Flannery

    THE NEWS THAT one of the world’s biggest employers, Amazon, is soon to enforce an end to hybrid and remote working arrangements will be met with unease by many Irish workers who have organised their lives around the new normal. This novel way of working has been with us now for about four-and-a-half years, which actually makes it not very novel at all. That is, hypothetically, long enough for someone to have had a baby who is now going to school.

  • Aug 20, 2024 | spotlight.ebu.ch | Maria Flannery

    Former U.S. president Donald Trump shared a series of images appearing to show Taylor Swift fans wearing T-shirts saying ‘Swifties for Trump’, as well as a poster depicting Taylor Swift with text saying ‘TAYLOR WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP’ — implying the pop superstar has endorsed Trump in his re-election bid.

  • Apr 29, 2024 | spotlight.ebu.ch | Maria Flannery

    Spotlight is a newsletter created by Eurovision News in collaboration with Members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It aims to combat misinformation and promote fact-checking efforts in Europe. The newsletter serves as a platform to showcase the fact-checking work of European public service media broadcasters.

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Maria Flannery
Maria Flannery @mariaflan
3 May 25

RT @FranceskAlbs: I wonder whether the European Civil Protection Mechanism can be activated for people—especially children—burned alive in…

Maria Flannery
Maria Flannery @mariaflan
17 Apr 25

People are treating these AIs like they're a Magic 8 ball capable of answering any question regardless of what information is out in the public domain, when it's really just sloppily scraping tidbits from around the internet that anyone could just look up for themselves

Cathy Newman
Cathy Newman @cathynewman

This is how inaccurate AI is. I haven’t publicly spoken about my experience of cancer treatment and returning to work after a period of absence. That’s because I haven’t had cancer. This has been scraped from a tweet I did about a colleague returning to work after cancer and an https://t.co/X3h4gj2BsP

Maria Flannery
Maria Flannery @mariaflan
14 Apr 25

RT @1followernodad: did no one read things before chatGPT? Because every writer I know loooooves the em dash