![]() ![]() In 2000, Hari was joint winner of The Times Student News Journalist of the Year award for his work on the Cambridge student newspaper, Varsity. Before his history of fabrication was uncovered, he wrote an article claiming he had sex with men who were members of homophobic far-right and Islamist groups, stating that with drugs and "a lot of flattery" he "coaxed" a nineteen year old Muslim into "wild gay sex". Hari graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 2001 with a double first in social and political sciences. He attended The John Lyon School, an independent school affiliated with Harrow, and then Woodhouse College, a state sixth form in Finchley. Hari states he was physically abused in his childhood while his father was away and his mother was ill. Hari was born in Glasgow, Scotland to a Scottish mother and Swiss father, before his family relocated to London when he was an infant. He has since written books on the topics of depression, the war on drugs, and the effect of technology on attention spans, which have attracted criticism for poorly evidenced claims, misrepresented sources, and bad citational practices. In 2011, Hari was suspended from The Independent and later resigned, after admitting to plagiarism and fabrications dating back to 2001 and making malicious edits to the Wikipedia pages of journalists who had criticised his conduct. ![]() Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British-Swiss writer and journalist who wrote for The Independent and The Huffington Post. ![]()
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