For me in an auto, it went away mostly when warm but was still present (foot on brake at lights etc)
I did a lot of diagnosis, I even created a new wiring harness from MAF to ECU. I bought two MAFs, one Hella and one VDO because of the situation you are in now not trusting it...
After all the s**t I learned using simple OBD tool with something that can read MAF values on my phone was easiest (In my case OBD Link MX)
Doing this at least in my case it was clear, the MAF was reading 0, or it was working for 5 miles then not etc