[Shadow44]

That’s the problem with the “Just Google it” mentality, Google translate provides “Fausses Nouvelles” as its first choice, but it’s incorrect.

Using the term “Nouvelles” for news means whoever is writing/speaking isn’t a native speaker and is translating rather haphazardly.

Or maybe it’s some weird Anglicism creeping into the language that I’m unaware of.

[Olog-hai]

Well, like I said, this appears on Google France. I cannot speak to how much control the French-speaking world is given over its content.