{"id":11446,"date":"2026-06-05T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=11446"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:02:29","slug":"the-pentagons-ai-propaganda-machine-comes-to-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/the-pentagons-ai-propaganda-machine-comes-to-latin-america-05062026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s AI Propaganda Machine Comes to Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, Sam Biddle, a tech reporter focusing on issues of surveillance and corporate power, published an article in The Intercept titled \u201cThe Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His thorough journalistic investigation reveals that the U.S. military is secretly operating a new AI-powered propaganda network targeting Latin American internet users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The La Tilde platform presents itself as an independent media brand for Spanish- and English-speaking audiences in the region, complete with a promotional video bearing telltale signs of AI generation. Its tagline, \u201cnews with an accent,\u201d belies its true purpose: to feed Pentagon-approved messaging to millions of unsuspecting readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its folksy branding, La Tilde\u2019s coverage reads less like journalism and more like a Pentagon press release. Articles praise U.S. military operations in hyperbolic, Trumpian prose. For example, stories extol the benefits of joint U.S.-Panamanian jungle warfare training while positioning the United States as a bulwark against China\u2019s \u201cpredatory practices\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site\u2019s true nature is buried in an easily missed disclosure on its About page, which states that La Tilde is \u201ca product of an international media organization publicly funded from the budget of the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This identical language has appeared on two other Pentagon-sponsored propaganda sites previously exposed by The Intercept. The disclosure allows Washington to technically claim transparency while the site otherwise operates without bylines, a masthead, or any mention of actual editorial staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a defense official familiar with U.S. information operations, La Tilde is run as a military messaging platform for U.S. Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH), which executes special forces missions across South and Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOCSOUTH declined to comment beyond citing the site\u2019s disclosure, while U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)\u2014which coordinates military assets in the target countries\u2014denied any \u201cofficial association\u201d with La Tilde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the site\u2019s content appears to be generated by large language models. An AI-text detection service flagged multiple articles as partially or entirely machine-written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerson Brooking, a former Pentagon cyber-policy adviser, described the operation as \u201cAI all the way down,\u201d noting the low-quality output, sloppy AI-generated images, including a White House portico missing several columns. Despite the shoddiness, Brooking warned that AI allows the Pentagon to spin up propaganda efforts faster than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of La Tilde\u2019s web infrastructure shows plans to launch bespoke versions for readers in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, and Peru. The site\u2019s articles downplay controversies over national sovereignty, including protests against the PANAMAX joint military exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, La Tilde promotes training provided by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation\u2014formerly known as the School of the Americas\u2014whose graduates include thousands of Latin American death squad members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Pentagon has a long history of online propaganda, including fake newsrooms and \u201cdeepfake\u201d research, La Tilde appears to be a lower-tech operation. Its design was subcontracted to Antpack, a Colombian digital marketing firm, and internal developer comments on a non-public version of the site were traced back to Antpack employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site shares a common Google Ads identifier with a network of similar propaganda websites run by military contractor General Dynamics Information Technology, which did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intercept\u2019s investigation also found that La Tilde echoes U.S. government claims\u2014such as alleging Ecuador is a nexus of the international cocaine trade\u2014that have been used to justify SOUTHCOM airstrikes killing more than 200 civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One article argues that military cooperation with the United States \u201cstrengthens\u201d rather than weakens sovereignty. Ultimately, experts see La Tilde as a hastily built, AI-driven influence operation that prioritizes speed over sophistication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe intent is probably to fill these sites with generic material, build an audience base, and then slip in more pieces of explicit propaganda. But the content is lazy, the AI is bad, and the required disclosures make the whole thing a farce,\u201d Brooking said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intercept\u2019s investigation raises urgent questions about how the United States is covertly shaping public opinion across Latin America under the guise of digital news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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