# Graphika Graphika is a New York network-analysis company founded in 2013 by John Kelly, now its executive chairman. Guyte McCord is CEO. It maps how accounts and communities connect online, and sells that analysis to platforms, governments and companies. It has named or documented several of the best-known foreign influence operations. Through the [[Election Integrity Partnership]] it also became a defendant in the right's main lawsuit against disinformation researchers. ## Signature work - **Spamouflage (September 2019).** Named the pro-Beijing network attacking the Hong Kong protests. - **[[Secondary Infektion]] (June 2020).** The definitive report on the Russian forgery operation, led by Ben Nimmo: at least 2,500 pieces of content on more than 300 platforms, 2014–2020. - **"Summit Old, Summit New" (August 2023).** Tracked [[Doppelganger]] and Secondary Infektion targeting NATO's Vilnius summit. - **Russian trolls on Instagram (2018).** With Oxford University, it wrote one of the two reports for the Senate Intelligence Committee on the [[Internet Research Agency]]. - **"Unheard Voice" (August 2022).** With the [[Stanford Internet Observatory]], it exposed a covert pro-Western influence network later tied to the U.S. military. That is evidence it reports on Washington's operations as well as Moscow's. ## The lawsuit In May 2023 [[America First Legal]], [[Stephen Miller]]'s legal group, filed *Hines v. Stamos* in federal court in Louisiana. The plaintiffs were Louisiana activist Jill Hines and [[Jim Hoft]] of [[The Gateway Pundit]]. The defendants were Stanford, [[Alex Stamos]], [[Renée DiResta]], [[Kate Starbird]], Graphika and Camille François, and the Atlantic Council and its [[Digital Forensic Research Lab]] director Graham Brookie. The claim was that their election-integrity work amounted to government-directed censorship. On July 1, 2026, Judge [[Terry Doughty]] dismissed the case without prejudice for lack of standing, applying [[Murthy v. Missouri]], and for lack of personal jurisdiction. [[Mike Benz]] has claimed that Graphika received about $7 million in Defense Department grants and contracts. That figure comes from his own organization and has not been independently confirmed. ## See Also - [[Election Integrity Partnership]] - [[Stanford Internet Observatory]] - [[Digital Forensic Research Lab]] - [[Secondary Infektion]] - [[Recorded Future]] - [[Twitter Files]]