Pith Number

pith:4WFJE5PQ

pith:2021:4WFJE5PQ4FBZF6TREKYQMXBXCP

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How does Truth Evolve into Fake News? An Empirical Study of Fake News Evolution

Dongyan Zhao, Juntao Li, Mingfei Guo, Rui Yan, Xiuying Chen

arxiv:2103.05944 v1 · 2021-03-10 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4WFJE5PQ4FBZF6TREKYQMXBXCP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:21:59.894438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e58a9275f0e14392fa7122b1065c3713e0ad67bf58cc1ed7bd91cabc3ad4e0ff

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.05944 · arxiv_version: 2103.05944v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.05944 · pith_short_12: 4WFJE5PQ4FBZ · pith_short_16: 4WFJE5PQ4FBZF6TR · pith_short_8: 4WFJE5PQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4WFJE5PQ4FBZF6TREKYQMXBXCP \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e58a9275f0e14392fa7122b1065c3713e0ad67bf58cc1ed7bd91cabc3ad4e0ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a84f766a784c80d2b56de6901b446aa609e3b725a5a6fc40f3041c48cedb5fc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-10T09:01:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cda2cb39891baf6a7dda58b5b1f2144499b5f644fa30a4b884b5e5fb3f21398f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.05944",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}