US 11,868,722 B1
Detecting information operations campaigns in social media with machine learning
Philip Tully, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 4, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/012,924.
Int. Cl. G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/284 (2020.01) [G06F 40/30 (2020.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for detecting an information operations campaign, the method comprising:
retrieving, via a processor, a first neural network language model including a natural language model trained on a first dataset;
modifying the first neural network language model, via transfer learning and based on a second dataset, to produce a second neural network language model;
receiving, via the processor, social media post data associated with a social media post;
extracting, via the processor, a plurality of features from the social media post data;
tokenizing, via the processor, the plurality of features to produce at least one token including a value;
generating, using the second neural network language model, a prediction score for the at least one token;
when the prediction score exceeds a first threshold value, generating, via the processor, a threat warning including a representation associated with at least one of the social media post or an account associated with the social media post; and
when the prediction score does not exceed the first threshold value and does exceed a second threshold value, generating the threat report and issuing the threat warning to an analyst.