Pith Number

pith:A2HZX3NZ

pith:2018:A2HZX3NZFPFFXB3G6X4DCZK7O2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization and Fake News: Early Warning of Potential Misinformation Targets

Antonio Scala, Fabiana Zollo, Michela Del Vicario, Walter Quattrociocchi

arxiv:1802.01400 v1 · 2018-02-05 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2HZX3NZFPFFXB3G6X4DCZK7O2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:26.495698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

068f9bedb92bca5b8766f5f831655f7689f0cdfb72001fd4aef5def65e361972

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.01400 · arxiv_version: 1802.01400v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.01400 · pith_short_12: A2HZX3NZFPFF · pith_short_16: A2HZX3NZFPFFXB3G · pith_short_8: A2HZX3NZ

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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/A2HZX3NZFPFFXB3G6X4DCZK7O2 \
  | 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: 068f9bedb92bca5b8766f5f831655f7689f0cdfb72001fd4aef5def65e361972

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc85723d9046dcc22beba30fbbd61a7408f914c6ee086f31758e5c0d8ef9d8dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-05T14:17:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e095c6d90c4dabc3cc69539988bfae8360b3040189c1dbfad6523c8615f2e023"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.01400",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}