Pith Number

pith:BSNO4D3F

pith:2025:BSNO4D3FZYU7ULKVYOWJ2NEP66

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Skeptik: A Hybrid Framework for Combating Potential Misinformation in Journalism

Arlen Fan, Fan Lei, Ross Maciejewski, Steven R. Corman

arxiv:2508.18499 v1 · 2025-08-25 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSNO4D3FZYU7ULKVYOWJ2NEP66}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:59:25.517585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c9aee0f65ce29fa2d55c3ac9d348ff78e6bb7809ecb4c94f378ab1cf470ddee

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.18499 · arxiv_version: 2508.18499v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.18499 · pith_short_12: BSNO4D3FZYU7 · pith_short_16: BSNO4D3FZYU7ULKV · pith_short_8: BSNO4D3F

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BSNO4D3FZYU7ULKVYOWJ2NEP66 \
  | 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: 0c9aee0f65ce29fa2d55c3ac9d348ff78e6bb7809ecb4c94f378ab1cf470ddee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c227a549d9a480d0bb9a669cde606e0d891d0d9aed95f387d93e96887a69fbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-25T21:14:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "06fcaf263051fa8012e2b1616b1fc2f710227b8c2fbf86b2a4a4c228b00ee83a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.18499",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}