Chris Hernon

Chris Hernon  (journalist, propagandist)
Nationality	UK?
Member of	Graphika, Institute for Statecraft, Institute for Statecraft/Tor team, Integrity Initiative
Interests	• Fake news • Russian propaganda • Scottish independence • financial corruption
Integrity Initiative

Chris Hernon is a UK journalist/propagandist member of the Integrity Initiative. He is a member of the IfS "TOR Team" with a reported 15 years of experience. His job title is listed as "Quality control" and his other roles as "Social media monitoring, evaluation, response".

Background

Hernon's Twitter homepage announces "Married to a Ukrainian 🇺🇦 ".

Activities

Chris Hernon worked as a team manager at BBC monitoring.

The Integrity Initiative Leak stated that "David Leask is a Scottish investigative journalist with a Russianist background who writes about financial corruption schemes and Kremlin propaganda attempts to co-opt the Scottish independence movement. Chris Hernon has told him about the project and brought him to meet the group." Another leak mentions Leask as a "former BBC Monitoring colleague of Chris Hernon".

Integrity Initiative Leak #4 contained Document:Nationbuilder People, which mentioned Chris Hernon as "point_person_name_or_email" for Jonathan Beale, Howard Gethin and Johnathan Marcus.

Cover-up

Chris Hernon's tweets are not public.

 

Documents by Chris Hernon

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:FCO Skripal material 16.03.18	Twitter roundup	16 March 2018	George Monbiot Robert van der Noordaa Julia Davis Anton Shekhovtsov James Patrick Paula Chertok Thomas Grove Martin Lewis Jason Beattie Paul Canning Gordon Guthrie David Jack Jamie Dettmer Krisztian Simon Andrew Scott	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, including a certain type of journalist, and "other users in our field".
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 23.3.18	Twitter roundup	23 March 2018	Garry Kasparov Sergei Skripal Julian Lindley-French Edward Lucas Henrik Breitenbauch Integrity Initive network Elliot Higgins Veli-Pekka Kivimäki Hans de Vreij Committee to Investigate Russia Mig Greengard Stiftung Leo Strauss Jimmy Rushmore	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are indeed "other users in our field"
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 24.3.18	Twitter roundup	24 March 2018	Sergei Skripal Jakub Janda Deborah Haynes Ian Bond 112 News Andreas Umland Niels Ockelmann James Marson Craig Silverman John Sweeney Daniel Twining Ryan O'Farrell Nina Khrushcheva Shashank Joshi Thomas Embleton Elizabeth Tsurkov	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are "other users in our field".
Document:My contribution	self-assessment	26 December 2018	Censorship Brainwashing Chris Hernon	A self assessment by Chris Hernon of how he can help the the Integrity Initiative
Document:Post Trip Report Stratcom event 11-13th June 2018	report	26 December 2018	Participants telling of several meeting with fellow information warriors in Riga	Participants telling of several meeting with fellow information warriors in Riga, esp. British and Dutch. Ad bureau Saatchi working for US State Dept.
Document:Skripal Case Study Discernment IFS2018	Twitter roundup	13 December 2018	Sergei Skripal David Leask Integrity Initive network Philip Sime The Media Society	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are "other users in our field".
Document:Twitter Roundup 20.03.18	Twitter roundup	13 December 2018	Stephen Kinnock Margaret Hodge Duncan Hames Hans de Vreij Stig Abel Kevin Schofield Peter j Bakulinskyj Tom Parfitt Shaun Walker Anton Troianovski Olexander Scherba English Lugansk Cormac Smith John McLellan Alison Thewliss	A Twitter roundup from II, comments on a Moon of Alabama piece. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are indeed "other users in our field"

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:My contribution	self-assessment	26 December 2018	Chris Hernon	A self assessment by Chris Hernon of how he can help the the Integrity Initiative

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