I was having the same issue and then I installed the terminal version 1400 - 10 Nov 2023 instead of version 1402 of 2 Jan 2024 and this seems to have solved the problem.
The news filter works fine now....Waiting for it to start taking trades!
He wrote it in April 2023 and there was a stable version MT4 build 1380. This will not be a problem in MT4 build XXXX
