I would say the public trust is not so much dying as actively being killed.
Also the word mainstream has lost its meaning. If that term is to apply based on audience size, sites like InfoWars were bigger than some of the traditional outlets.
The idea of leaving "mainstream" outlets to seek truth on sites like InfoWars is more about people just wanting to hear their biases and not really interested in news per se.
I haven't read this particular book but enjoyed "The Theory that would not die"[1] which also details the historic conflict between frequentists and the bayesian statisticians. Not sure which is the better book but "The Theory..." has a lot more Goodreads ratings than this one.
Oh wow. So I recently built something similar for my own needs[0]. It's strictly mobile right now, but it serves my needs to get reminders on when things are about to go bad. Will have to dig into this app to see if I can integrate it
Interestingly Google today does support (a subset of) Microdata embedded in HTML within Gmail, Google Assistant and Search. Much simpler than the complex constructs of the Semantic Web as originally conceived though.
I transitioned a side project from native to React Native and it was not a great story (2 years ago at least). Since my app used some native views, and there wasn't enough documentation or community behind that, every new RN version would take nights of my life in patching and getting the app to recompile.
Ultimately, I moved to Flutter and have loved the experience since (https://devbots.ai/jax.html). The main reason I was trying to use native views is because I wanted to draw some custom components (custom drawing commands + animations) but there wasn't a good story around that in RN, but Flutter gives you a canvas for such efforts, with no penalty caused by the native/JS bridge.
For mobile side projects at least I have settled on Flutter. Web is still a disappointing story in Flutter though, so its back to React for now.