Exploring Russian Election Interference with Graphiti

We built a visual exploration tool and AI assistant for analyzing Russian interference in the run-up to the 2024 US elections.

Graphiti is an open-source Knowledge Graph library at the core of Zep's memory layer for AI agents. Graphiti autonomously builds dynamic, temporally-aware knowledge graphs representing complex, evolving relationships between entities. In the run-up to next week's US election, we've used Graphiti to power our Russian Influence Operations Explorer: a knowledge graph visualization and related Q&A bot for exploring Russian state operations to influence US election outcomes.

We built the graph using a range of sources, including US DOJ indictments, US and foreign government research, non-governmental organization research, and media articles, to offer users a detailed view of these operations. Using our graph, you can explore which US organizations and individuals are implicated in these efforts and learn how private entities (such as OpenAI, Meta, and others) have responded to these challenges.

Two operations stand out in this dataset: Doppelganger and Tenet Media. The Doppelganger operation's multinational scope required us to draw from both US and European sources to capture its full impact. For Tenet Media, we used diverse sources, ranging from federal government reports to Variety magazine's industry coverage, to illuminate the company's collapse and its broader implications for the media landscape.

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