China to ban "fake news" that contains artificial intelligence or deepfakes

China's history of censoring the internet and using propaganda to give its citizens a false sense of reality is well documented. And now, Chinese regulators have announced new rules that will allow them to further dictate what citizens perceive as reality. From January 1, 2020, publishing and distributing what the regulators deem to be "fake news" created with artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, or virtual reality (VR) will be banned. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) added that content produced with AI, deep learning, or VR will need to be clearly labeled when these new rules come into effect. Failure to label such content under the new rules could be a criminal offense.