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There's a new global news network launching in 2024 which completely ditches humans for AI-generated newsreaders – and they're showing off some superhuman capabilities that make it very clear: the days of the human news presenter are numbered.

A new KFF survey has found 78 percent of Americans believe, or are uncertain about, at least one piece of COVID-19 misinformation. The survey also found more than one third of those polled believe the government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths.

Colloidal silver, herbal supplements and essential oils are among a number of products currently being fraudulently promoted as cures for COVID-19, as the US Food and Drug Administration targets seven companies peddling unproven treatments.

China’s state-run news agency has revealed it will deploy new digitally generated newsreaders to report the news. The artificial anchors have been designed to reduce news production costs and increase efficiency, however, the use of the technology brings a new definition to the term "fake news."

MIT researchers have set out to develop a new machine learning system designed to evaluate not just individual articles, but entire news sources. The system is programmed to classify news sources for general accuracy and political bias.

Not a day goes by without someone throwing out the term 'fake news'. While misinformation and inaccurate reporting is undeniably a major global problem, fake news is quickly morphing into something else entirely, and some governments are using the phrase as a way to quash dissenting opinions.

As Germany and France move towards elections in 2017 pressure has been mounting on tech giants to tackle the challenge of fake news. But in the age of highly politicized news cycles the question is how can truth be safely separated from fiction without censoring genuine alternative news sources?

As several internet giants are currently grappling with the conundrum of how to deal with the influx of digitally driven "fake news" we can pause for a moment and ask, what is driving this movement and where did it come from?

Google is launching new ways to get its data into the news, literally.

The Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) has opened a new UK headquarters and broadcast studio in one of London's most iconic buildings. The new facility at the Shard skyscraper is both unconventional and cleverly designed.

In its never-ending quest to become the filter through which we see all the wonders of the web, Facebook has unveiled a new platform for news outlets. Instant Articles will offer tools for publishing articles direct to the social network, delivering rich, fast-loading mobile news content.

People diss Twitter for its triviality, but give me lunch tweets and lighthearted nonsense over pitchforks, death threats and endless opinions any day, says Gizmag's James Holloway.