Totally. The media filled the faith vaccuum. And they have indeed become powerful enough to even try and swollow up science. Many fields have already fallen, only the hard sciences are still fighting.

The consequences are dire. We are basically rolling back 500 years of cultural progress. In 2020 we threw all achievements of enlightenment out of the window and we are again a primitive medieval culture ruled by fear, superstition, and the church. It will take years for most people to realize whats happening in the big picture and how apocalyptic this will be for the world as they know it. We have by far not seen the end of this nightmare.