Pith Number

pith:BA5JBDA6

pith:2017:BA5JBDA6KF6U3UJW2FF3ELDTDD

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The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources

Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Michael Sirivianos, Nicolas Kourtellis, Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield

arxiv:1705.06947 v2 · 2017-05-19 · cs.SI · cs.CY

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\pithnumber{BA5JBDA6KF6U3UJW2FF3ELDTDD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:59.093009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

083a908c1e517d4dd136d14bb22c7318e485c623d87633f2bc319b3d95f1f46a

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06947 · arxiv_version: 1705.06947v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06947 · pith_short_12: BA5JBDA6KF6U · pith_short_16: BA5JBDA6KF6U3UJW · pith_short_8: BA5JBDA6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BA5JBDA6KF6U3UJW2FF3ELDTDD \
  | 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: 083a908c1e517d4dd136d14bb22c7318e485c623d87633f2bc319b3d95f1f46a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f379397fa4d61d7a28c57fb26251d3a5f8e81473b1c9c8ef38e95941fdb6244d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-19T12:01:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62e4ee15b8fc1d01d979ebeb469032a6099f98c404c629cc70bbe2d5f9b059e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.06947",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}