AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Elliot Stewart
Elliot Stewart is an open source analyst at Novetta using digital media analytics to support defense, legal, and public health actors. Novetta delivers scalable advanced analytic and technical solutions to address challenges of national and global significance. Focused on mission success, Novetta pioneers disruptive technologies in machine learning, data analytics, full-spectrum cyber, open source analytics, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, and multi-INT analytics for defense, intelligence community, and federal law enforcement. Novetta is headquartered in McLean, VA with over 1,300 employees across the U.S.
The COVID-19 infodemic: How Novetta uses machine learning to analyze unproven narratives on social media
The COVID-19 pandemic is driving a parallel “infodemic”: the rapid spread of competing and often harmful narratives about the virus. Social media plays a central role in this infodemic, serving as a forum for the spread and evolution of theories and beliefs with origins in broadcast, print, online news, blogs, and other digital arenas. As the COVID-19 infodemic grew, Novetta used AWS to create Rapid Narrative Analysis (RNA), a solution that achieves accuracy by using human expertise at critical stages of analysis while using machine learning (ML) models to rapidly diagnose the severity of the spread of key narratives at a speed needed to take effective action.