Deleted section about incident at New Statesmen (of questionable significance) where an editor questioned quotes used by Hari. Incident ended without fabrication or misrepresentation confirmed, and so removed it from the page's "fabrication or misrepresentation" section.
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In a 2010 article about military robots, Hari falsely claimed that former Japanese prime minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] was attacked by a factory robot and was nearly killed.[{{Cite web |date=22 January 2010 |title=Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html |website=[[The Independent]]}}][{{Cite web |date=26 January 2010 |title=Commentary on Killer Robots is Mostly Bunk |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/commentary-on-killer-robots-is-mostly-bunk}}][{{cite news |last1=Foreman |first1=Jonathan |authorlink1=Jonathan Foreman (journalist) |title=Dirty Hari |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-foreman/dirty-hari/ |access-date=11 April 2026 |work=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary Magazine]] |date=1 December 2011}}] Hari falsely claimed that a large globe erected for the Copenhagen climate summit was "covered with corporate logos" for [[McDonald's]] and [[Carlsberg Group|Carlsberg]], with "the [[Coca-Cola|Coke]] brand ... stamped over Africa."[{{Cite web |date=2009-12-11 |title=Johann Hari: Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-leaders-of-the-rich-world-are-enacting-a-giant-fraud-1837963.html |access-date=2026-04-12 |website=The Independent |language=en}}] ''Private Eye''{{'}}s Hackwatch column also suggested that he pretended to have used the drug ecstasy and misrepresented a two-week package tour in Iraq as a one-month research visit, in order to bolster support for the Iraq war by stating that Iraqi civilians he spoke to were in favour of an invasion, although in an earlier article[{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/dec/03/iraq.iraq |title=The mother of all package tours |work=The Guardian |date=3 December 2002 |first=Johann |last=Hari |access-date=2 July 2024}}] he had given a conflicting account stating that Iraqis were reticent about their opinions.[{{Cite news |work=Private Eye |number=1076 |page=5 |date=23 March 2003 |title=Hari's Game |url=http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0003736.html |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012205438/http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0003736.html |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}] |
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In a 2010 article about military robots, Hari falsely claimed that former Japanese prime minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] was attacked by a factory robot and was nearly killed.[{{Cite web |date=22 January 2010 |title=Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html |website=[[The Independent]]}}][{{Cite web |date=26 January 2010 |title=Commentary on Killer Robots is Mostly Bunk |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/commentary-on-killer-robots-is-mostly-bunk}}][{{cite news |last1=Foreman |first1=Jonathan |authorlink1=Jonathan Foreman (journalist) |title=Dirty Hari |url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-foreman/dirty-hari/ |access-date=11 April 2026 |work=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary Magazine]] |date=1 December 2011}}] Hari falsely claimed that a large globe erected for the Copenhagen climate summit was "covered with corporate logos" for [[McDonald's]] and [[Carlsberg Group|Carlsberg]], with "the [[Coca-Cola|Coke]] brand ... stamped over Africa."[{{Cite web |date=2009-12-11 |title=Johann Hari: Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-leaders-of-the-rich-world-are-enacting-a-giant-fraud-1837963.html |access-date=2026-04-12 |website=The Independent |language=en}}] ''Private Eye''{{'}}s Hackwatch column also suggested that he pretended to have used the drug ecstasy and misrepresented a two-week package tour in Iraq as a one-month research visit, in order to bolster support for the Iraq war by stating that Iraqi civilians he spoke to were in favour of an invasion, although in an earlier article[{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2002/dec/03/iraq.iraq |title=The mother of all package tours |work=The Guardian |date=3 December 2002 |first=Johann |last=Hari |access-date=2 July 2024}}] he had given a conflicting account stating that Iraqis were reticent about their opinions.[{{Cite news |work=Private Eye |number=1076 |page=5 |date=23 March 2003 |title=Hari's Game |url=http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0003736.html |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012205438/http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0003736.html |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}] |
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While Hari was working at the ''New Statesman'', the magazine's deputy editor, [[Cristina Odone]], doubted the authenticity of quotations in a story he wrote. When she asked to see his notebooks, he said that he had lost them. After discovering that Hari had lost a position at the Cambridge student newspaper for allegedly unethical behaviour, Odone went to the magazine's editor, Peter Wilby, but without result. Odone subsequently found that her Wikipedia entry had been altered by Hari, using his [[sock puppet account]] of "David Rose", to falsely accuse her of homophobia and anti-Semitism.[{{cite news|last=Odone|first=Cristina|title=I fell out with Johann Hari – then 'David Rose' started tampering viciously with my Wikipedia entry|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100096260/i-fell-out-with-johann-hari-%E2%80%93-then-david-rose-started-tampering-viciously-with-my-wikipedia-entry/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717090339/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100096260/i-fell-out-with-johann-hari-%E2%80%93-then-david-rose-started-tampering-viciously-with-my-wikipedia-entry/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-17|accessdate=17 April 2012|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=11 July 2011}}] |
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Hari has been accused of misrepresenting writing by [[George Galloway]], [[Eric Hobsbawm]], Nick Cohen and [[Noam Chomsky]].[{{Cite news|title=Bloggers defy Britain's tough libel laws|author=Michael Weiss|work=Slate Magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012021206/http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/ |archive-date=12 October 2007 |access-date=12 January 2022}}] |
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Hari has been accused of misrepresenting writing by [[George Galloway]], [[Eric Hobsbawm]], Nick Cohen and [[Noam Chomsky]].[{{Cite news|title=Bloggers defy Britain's tough libel laws|author=Michael Weiss|work=Slate Magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012021206/http://www.slate.com/id/2175579/ |archive-date=12 October 2007 |access-date=12 January 2022}}] |
