i will discuss my ongoing joint work with ionut chifan and daniel drimbe on various rigidity aspects of von neumann algebras arising from graph product groups whose underlying graph is a certain cycle of cliques and whose vertex groups are wreath-like product property (t) groups. in particular, i will describe all symmetries of these von neumann algebras by establishing formulas in the spirit of genevois and martin’s results on automorphisms of graph product groups. in doing so, i will highlight the methods used from popa’s deformation/rigidity theory as well as new techniques pertaining to graph product algebras.