I decided to put together a uBlock Origin block list for fakenews sites. I found a few listings on GitHub for host files to do this but nothing in uBlock Origin so I decided to make another repo with some of the host files as a starting point. Feel free to share/add some other fakenews sites.
https://github.com/femaven/fakenews-ublockorigin/blob/master/ruleset
https://github.com/femaven/fakenews-ublockorigin/blob/master/ruleset