According to FoxNewsAI, former DHS Secretary Chad Wolf argues that China is using AI-driven disinformation and deepfake content to influence public opinion across Latin America and the Caribbean, signaling a geopolitical contest for the Western Hemisphere; as reported by Fox News Opinion, Wolf states that coordinated AI propaganda campaigns target elections, security policy, and U.S. alliances, leveraging state media and bot networks to amplify narratives at scale. According to Fox News, the piece highlights how low-cost generative models and synthetic media enable persistent information operations that overwhelm local fact-checking capacity and erode trust in institutions, increasing regulatory and platform moderation pressure on U.S. tech firms operating in the region. As reported by Fox News Opinion, Wolf warns that AI-powered influence operations may exploit Spanish and Portuguese language gaps in moderation tools, creating a business risk for social platforms, ad-tech intermediaries, and cloud providers that lack region-specific safety layers. According to FoxNewsAI’s post referencing the Fox News article, the analysis calls for public-private partnerships, cross-border attribution mechanisms, and expanded AI safety investments to counter coordinated inauthentic behavior, opening opportunities for vendors in content provenance, multilingual model alignment, and election integrity services.