# Quote — Johann Hari, Stolen Focus

> At the moment false claims spread on social media far faster than the truth, because of the algorithms that spread outraging material faster and further.

- Author: [Johann Hari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari.md)
- Book: [Stolen Focus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus.md)
- Page: 129
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Stolen_Focus_(2022)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/at-the-moment

## More from this book

> So if you check your texts often while trying to work, you aren’t only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts– you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterwards, which can be much longer.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/so-if-you.md)

> For the average American, it’s three hours and fifteen minutes. We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty- four hours.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/for-the-average.md)

> around one in five car accidents is now due to a distracted driver.

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-hari/stolen-focus/around-one-in-five.md)